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Date:      Sun, 21 May 1995 00:49:28 +0400 (MSD)
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.hb.north.de>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freefall.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: Changed information for PR misc/409
Message-ID:  <PRONbllyk2@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <9505201915.AA06222@cs.weber.edu>; from Terry Lambert at Sat, 20 May 95 13:15:54 MDT
References:  <9505201915.AA06222@cs.weber.edu>

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In message <9505201915.AA06222@cs.weber.edu> Terry Lambert writes:

>It's a vi/bash/elvis bug.  The ks/ke is not supposed to be destructive,
>it's supposed to allow an application to distinguish the keypad and
>non-keypad characters with the same keycaps (in the case of the PC,
>when numlock is on).

1) It isn't a bug, read man 5 termcap about ks/ke,
your ks/ke interpretation is wrong.
2) Those ks/ke comes from original VT100 which don't
have any additional keypad expect PF1-PF4, so it
forced to use numeric keypad. Since xterm emulates VT
family, it preserve this historycal cruft.

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