Delete key

[Seth]

Feeling for Bill. Always amazing to watch you guys spar and sometimes the
question never gets addressed.

I have posed this query to Ken previously with no response and it may just
be that I am perceived as naive or unsophisticated.

Is there a way to make input in fields operate in the now standard
Win/Appl/Android way (non DEC-VT100), ie- DELETE KEY deletes the character
the cursor is on, SPACE inserts a space. I have the BS working correctly
via PUTTY.

I am assuming there is no way to have the ENTER key insert a newline in
screen creation or output formatting, but this is not for the enduser
anyway and we don't utilize multi-line fields.

Thanks in advance. If there is no way to accomplish this, a simple no will
suffice.

Enjoy your weekend all.
Seth


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:05 PM, William J. McEachran <
bill.mceachran at gmail.com> wrote:

> All I need is a 'how to' control the DELETE key document.
> That key can do nothing in filePro and I'm good with it.
> If it deletes a character that's even better.  :-)
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On 3/20/2014 3:54 PM, William J. McEachran wrote:
> >
> >> I just don't think that hitting the DEL key should behave so
> unexpectedly
> >> ... inserting "~3"'s in fields.
> >>
> >
> > What would you expect a program to do when a sequence of characters comes
> > in, which is not defined to be any particular "keystroke"?  Numerous
> > defined keystrokes start with "ESC [", but none are then followed by a
> "3".
> >  What would be your "expected behavior" when "ESC [ 3 ~" is sent to
> > filePro? (Remember, filePro has no way of knowing that a single keystroke
> > generated those characters, up to and including the tilde.)
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > --
> > Kenneth Brody
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Bill McEachran
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