Debian bug report logs - #1800
missing terminfo keydefs

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On Fri, 3 Nov 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote:

> The apparent missing defs I noticed are for kf20-kf29 (Shifted F1-F10,
> or f11-f20), kil1 (insert key) and kdel1 (delete key).

It looks like I picked the wrong Capnames off the terminfo(5)
man page for these last night.  Should be kich1 instead of kil1,
and kdch insted of kdel1.

The linux console seems to have these defs:

    kf11=\E[23~, kf12=\E[24~, kf13=\E[25~, kf14=\E[26~, kf15=\E[28~, 
    kf16=\E[29~, kf17=\E[31~, kf18=\E[32~, kf19=\E[33~, kf20=\E[34~, 
    kich1=\E[2~, kdch1=\E[3,

I identified these by using "cat -v"

I've tried the same thing in an xterm, and get seemingly strange
sequences from the HOME and END keys.

One other thing I notice about an xterm is that the NumLock
key seems to have no effect.  I'm not very familiar with X11,
and I may be doing something to cause this.  More likely, though,
I'm failing to do something and seeing unexpected default behavior
which I'll be able to change if I figure out how to do that.

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Subject: missing terminfo keydefs
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package:  ncurses-runtime
version:  1.9.4-0

I'm no ncurses or terminfo expert, but I've been trying to get ae working
with terminfo in anticipation of the junking of termcap, and I've run
into some missing key definition problems for TERM=linux.  I've looked
at the terminfo source in an earlier version (1.8.7) which I happen to
have available, and find keydefs apparently missing from data/linux.
The apparent missing defs I noticed are for kf20-kf29 (Shifted F1-F10,
or f11-f20), kil1 (insert key) and kdel1 (delete key).

I haven't checked files other than data/linux.  At a minimum, data/linux 
and data/xterm should be defined to the keys available on the usual PK 
keyboards, I'd expect.

It's very possible that I'm missing something here but, in my ignorance,
that's what it looks like to me.

mitchell@mdd.comm.mot.com (Bill Mitchell)