From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 04:51:02 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9111065670 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 04:51:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997258FC17 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 04:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B879AE80E49; Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:51:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 21:51:01 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Thomas Dickey Message-ID: <20111007045101.GA603@thought.org> References: <20111006224114.GA15978@thought.org> <20111006233725.GA18837@saltmine.radix.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20111006233725.GA18837@saltmine.radix.net> Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. Of_Interest: With 25 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:51:02 -0000 On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 07:37:25PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:37:25 -0400 > From: Thomas Dickey > Subject: Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key? > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > > On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 03:41:17PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > I've got a 103-key keyboard. most of them produce the right WAV > > file. i was having some trouble with the arrow key, but think i've > > found a resolution. next are the Function key, F1 to F12. > > > > anybody on-list familiar with curses and can help me with this? > > right now, most of the function keys output 4 clicks [!]. > > I generally use tack for verifying the function-keys against the terminal > description. (I don't recall seeing a port for tack, but it can probably > be built starting with ncurses-devel, though I haven't tried that, since > I build development versions of ncurses outside the ports). > > For _seeing_ the codes, it helps to type ^V (lnext) right before pressing > a given key, making the escape character visible. > Hm. no joy in mudville. i know the first byte ia an ESC [ '\033]. the last, for F1, is an A. the others are hidden. i'll check ncurses-devel and see w hat it has. REAL code helps in stuff like this... . > -- > Thomas E. Dickey > http://invisible-island.net > ftp://invisible-island.net -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Journey Toward the Dawn, E-Book: http://www.thought.org The 8.51a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org