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From: summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield)
Subject: XTerm/Key code problems
Message-ID: <9313210.1124@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Organization: Dept of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
Date: Wed, 12 May 1993 00:36:55 GMT
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I posted the other day with a problem with cursor movement in vi -- the arrow
keys are not working. A couple of people replied with suggestions (for which
I was grateful) but none worked. Further investigation has established that
the problem seems to be with xterm and/or termcap.
The arrow keys generate events correctly (tested with xev), but for some
reason, xterm seems to be sending pc3 (console) style escape sequences instead
of xterm (or vt100) ones, e.g.:
Press: right arrow Sends: ^[[C Instead of: ^[OC
Press: left arrow Sends: ^[[D Instead of: ^[OD
etc....
This doesn't bother tcsh in the slightest for some reason, but it does bother
vi. I'm also having problems in non-curses applications -- user input lines
are not erased by ^U, for example. Running Kermit in an Xterm is fine
(which is what I'm doing here) -- key codes reach the remote host correctly
translated such that I can have the terminal type set to xterm, and it all
works OK. The termcap entry for xterm on this host is standard (and
identical to that on the 386bsd machine).
I'm really confused about how all the key translations, tty operations and
termcap features are supposed to work together. I can think of plenty of
workarounds (changing my xterm termcap entry, changing the xterm key
translations through the X resources), but I shouldn't have to do this.
I just don't understand why it doesn't work!
Thanks for any help,
Mark.
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Mark Summerfield, Photonics Research Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Melbourne
ACSnet[AARN/Internet]: summer@ee.mu.oz[.au]
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