filepro keys

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Wed Mar 27 13:08:04 PDT 2013


On 3/27/2013 2:39 PM, davidrottkamp at echoes.net wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> Can the keys filepro recognizes as ESC – SAVE and DEL – break
> be switched .  I know I can change the SAVE key value in termcap
> and I know I can use stty intr “^[“ to make the ESC key mean break to filepro
> but when I do the stty inrt “^[“ it causes other keys that depend on the ESC sequence to fail
> such as arrow keys and function keys.

If the terminal sends the ESC character as part of any keystroke, then you 
cannot use ESC as the interrupt character.  (As you noted, the O/S will see 
the ESC character and generate an interrupt signal.)  The same is true for 
any character value that needs to be part of a keystroke sequence.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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