From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6f4b2f1a3f091549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!c51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: "Adam Beneschan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Escape Codes Date: 5 Mar 2007 08:47:09 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1173113228.380388.89770@c51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> References: <45ec0b23$1@news.post.ch> NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.126.103.122 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1173113236 11368 127.0.0.1 (5 Mar 2007 16:47:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:47:16 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <45ec0b23$1@news.post.ch> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050922 Fedora/1.7.12-1.3.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c51g2000cwc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=66.126.103.122; posting-account=cw1zeQwAAABOY2vF_g6V_9cdsyY_wV9w Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:9688 Date: 2007-03-05T08:47:09-08:00 List-Id: On Mar 5, 4:20 am, Martin Krischik wrote: > Hello, > > I know it's not an Ada question but you guys are my last hope as I > googled until my fingers bleed. > > Now I know that xterm will send [A on the up key and [B in the > down key but could not find any informations on all the other keys - > like page up page down. There must be a list somewhere. I mean an easy > to understand human readable list - which termcap isn't. > > Can anybody give me a pointer? I haven't tried this, but would looking for a VT100 or VT220 manual help? The escape sequences are, I believe, some sort of ANSI standard which those terminals followed (at least for most keys; there may be some unusual keys that DEC developed its own nonstandard sequences for). I'm just going from memory here. -- Adam