Re: [MiNT] TOSWIN2 and cursor keys

["Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>]

Ole, 09.02.2013 00:04:17:

>  Am Freitag, den 08.02.2013, 23:57 +0100 schrieb "Helmut Karlowski"  
>  <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>:
> > Ole, 08.02.2013 23:30:10:
> >
> > >  but, I strongly feel that this isn't correct, because I believe the  
> > > kernel
> > >  or mintlib is returning something as 2 keycodes which shall be  
> > > returned
> > >  as a single one...
> >
> > How do you think it should work otherwise?
>
>  I thought a keycode is defined as long, or at least short (2 bytes...).

In fact an Esc-sequence can have any length, in xterm some are 8 bytes or  
even more. This is a problem for some programs, but it's not an issue here.

Try the helmut-kernel - it has up to 5 bytes long keycodes or so.

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Helmut Karlowski