Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 1:22:40 -0800 (PST) From: freebsd@ccstores.com (Jim Pazarena) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vt100 emulation Message-ID: <E169jsW-0003v9-00@dick.ccstores.com>
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I have a program I wrote which uses low level termcap entries (as opposed
to higher level curses entries), and the screens I use are vt100.
I don't use the dec keyboard, and this is where I think my probem lies.
up/down/right/left/backspace from the screen sends
\E[A \E[B \E[C \E[D ^H respectfully
the termcap entry for a vt100 in /usr/share/misc/termcap is instead
\E0A \E0B \E0C \E0D \177
I changed the termcap entries to agree with what the screen sends,
and my program works fine.
running vi however screws up unless I change the termcap entry back to
the original entries.
Can someone please explain what may be going on here?
Oh yes, I removed the line in the termcap entry which is the
"initialization" line thinking that vi may be sending an init
string and re-programing the arrow keys, however it didn't change
the outcome. vi still screws up. One other clue is that the same
low-level termcap routine on SCO Unix works as expected *and* vi
does as well (their termcap entry agrees with my screen's output).
I'm trying to migrate totally away from SCO Unix, and this is my
last stumbling block.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Jim Pazarena mailto:paz@qcislands.net
http://www.qcislands.net/paz
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