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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Changed information for PR misc/409
To: nox@jelal.hb.north.de (Juergen Lock)
Date: Wed, 17 May 95 10:33:32 MDT
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> > On all VT100-like (xterm included) keypad not supposed to generate numbers
> > in keypad-active mode, but generates arrows instead
> 
> So that means NumLock isn't supposed to work?  with NumLock off
> i get arrows, with NumLock on i get different escape sequences
> unknown to vi.
> 
>  or should i just :map them to digits...

The NumLock key switches the keypad between edit key mode and numeric
key mode.

So it will send escape sequences for up/down/left/right/home/end/pgup/pgdown
or it will send the current keypad mode values.

If yout termcap 'ti' string tells it to turn on keypad mode, it will, and
the current keypad mode values will be escape sequences; otherwise, the
current keypad mode values will be digits and the other characte that
the keypad normally sends (+/-/del/enter).

So the NumLock has squat to do with whether the keypad values sent are
numeric or escape sequences, it has only to do with switching between the
keypad values (whatever they are) and the edit values (an IBM extension
when the original keyboards weren't 101 keys).

If you want numeric instead of escape sequence values for the keypad
values, then you will have to remove the terminal initialization sequence
that requests the escape sequence values.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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