Re: GRUB_CONSOLE_KEY_NPAGE/PPAGE codes

[Robert Millan]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:08:00PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> > In the ChangeLog from Grub (not Grub2) I can read:
> > --------
> > 1999-03-13  Gordon Matzigkeit  <address@hidden>
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> >         * shared_src/shared.h (KEY_DELETE): Rename to KEY_DC, for
> >         compatibility with curses.
> >         (KEY_INSERT): Rename to KEY_IC.
> >         (KEY_PGDN): Rename to KEY_NPAGE.
> >         (KEY_PGUP): Rename to KEY_PPAGE.
> > --------
> > 
> > These names are still valid in libncurses5.
> 
> wtf?!
> 
> What idiocy is this ??

Calm down!  Or you'll scare him :-)

> Making it really hard for normal people to
> understand what those means. I would go for understandability and not to
> be "compatible" with curses internally... curses terminal driver can use
> what ever it wants.

Agreed.  If we want to be compatible with curses code, we could just add a
layer.  Or even define macro aliases (e.g. #define KEY_IC KEY_INSERT).

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