lynx-dev Re: Lynx 2.8.1: Numeric Keypad?

[Daniel Pfarrer]

Something strange is definitely going on.

Well, I did an experiment. When I use NiftyTelnet for the Mac (which is
what I used earlier), lynx 2.8.1 seemed to be able to tell the difference
between my regular numbers and the numberic keypad, because the keypad was
remapped as arrow keys (one of lynx's new "features" I believe). Although
the numberic keypad works fine (displays numbers) at the shell prompts and
in every other program I use (including pine).

When I use BetterTelnet for the Mac, lynx 2.8.1 works like it's supposed
to (the numeric keypad displays numbers and is not remapped as arrow
keys). The lynx config. files were not altered.

Which leaves me to believe that there is a bug in lynx 2.8.1 because
earlier v's of lynx don't have this problem when I use NiftyTelnet.

I wrote a little C program that echo's back the ASCII value(s) for my
Mac's "num lock/clear" key, and it gave back ^[OP repesenting "27, 79,
80". This response is the same in both telnet programs.

On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Klaus Weide wrote:

> In article <address@hidden> you write:
> >I compiled lynx 2.8.1 on a Sparc system and on BSDI 3.1. Using
> >it via telnet (from a Macintosh), I can't seem to get the numeric keypad
> >to work on either platform -- although they did work fine in 2.8rel.3.
> >
> >In the Options Menu (Lynx Version 2.8.1), the keypad mode options are
> >"Numbers act as arrows", "Links are numbered", and "Links and form fields
> >are numbered". Shouldn't there be a "Numbers act as numbers?"
> >
> >In the lynx.cfg file, the DEFAULT_KEYPAD_MODE_IS_NUMBERS_AS_ARROWS does
> >not seem to make any difference. I really don't care to have my keypad
> >remapped since I already have arrow keys (which work fine).
> >
> >Any suggestions as to what to do?
> 
> It is not Lynx that makes your numeric keypad send something else than
> digits.  Lynx just expects digits - it cannot distinguish whether they
> were generated by the numeric keypad or by some other keys.
> 
> If lynx doesn't see the '7' from the numeric keypad as a '7' (and so
> on), then I assume that that key also doesn't generate a '7' at the
> Sparc or BSDI shell prompt when you are telnetted in.  (If this
> assumption is wrong, then something stranger is going on.)
> 
> You likely have to change some settings in your telnet client, to
> prevent it from mapping the numeric keys to something else.
> 
>    Klaus