Re: shift-up, shift-down (KEY_SUP KEY_SDOWN ?)

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Don Mahurin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wrote the NCurses front end to the fte editor. See nfte.sourceforge.net.
>
> In updating that for Ncurses 5.5, ( as shipped with Fedora Core 5 ),
> I noticed that Shift-Up returns 01007 to getch and Shift-Down returns 01000.
> These are both undefined in the header and greater than KEY_MAX.
>
> Is this expected, known behavior?  konsole and xterm settings are set up to 
> send "^[[1;2A" and "^[[1;2B" for these.
>
> My hack defines KEY_SUP and KEY_SDOWN 01007 and 01000, but this is probably 
> the wrong solution.

The keyname() function can be used here.  For instance, here's the end of
the output from test/keynames running for $TERM set to screen-bce:

410(  632):KEY_RESIZE
513( 1001):kDN5
514( 1002):kDN6
515( 1003):kLFT5
516( 1004):kLFT6
517( 1005):kRIT5
518( 1006):kRIT6
520( 1010):kUP5
521( 1011):kUP6

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