Re: Escape Codes

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com> wrote:
> On Mar 5, 4:20 am, Martin Krischik <krisc...@users.sourceforge.net>
> 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 <esc>[A on the up key and <esc>[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

no - there's apparently no standard for the strings that function-keys
send (aside from terminal-specific stuff).

> 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.

DEC was reasonably consistent - function keys are formed as control
strings that could be echoed to the terminal and either ignored, or
(as with cursor keys) do something useful.

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