Re: Grabbing Escape key

[Dave Wood]

On (23:43 13/01/09), Dan Nelson <address@hidden> put forth the proposition:
> In the last episode (Jan 14), Dave Wood said:
> > How do I use the escape key in an input routine? I looked in
> > ncurses.h but didn't see anything there except ESCDELAY.
> >
> > I tried using 1 as a keycode but that doesn't seem to be working:
> >
> >         int c = getch();
> >       switch(c)
> >       {
> >       case 1:
> >           return;
> >       }
>
> getch should return 27 when ESC is pressed.  What do you see being
> returned when you hit ESC?

Yes 27 works fine thanks. I got '1' because that's what grabkeys returned
when I treid it.

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