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Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key?

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On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:43:59 -0600, crankypuss wrote:
> It seems clear at this point that layers running "below" ncurses are 
> limiting its usefulness by taking over certain keys for their cutsie 
> menus and so forth.  I had hoped that there was some even-lower-level 
> Linux system facility that nurses could use to get some control back but 
> apparently not, apparently I'll need to go on some quest to find out who 
> the heck "owns" the terminal and see how things can be dealt with more 
> usefully.
>
> I might need to entirely abandon ncurses as useless for my purposes and 
> work through the fugliness of html since at least browsers serve up a 
> level of cross-system consistency.  But I really don't want to give up 
> the key-by-key responsiveness that ncurses in cbreak mode provides, and 
> I really don't want to deal with the security issues of having a local 
> apache server involved in a lower-level utility's interface.

Kinda makes one miss the days when Runlevel 3 MEANT something, doesn't
it?

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   to prove it by leaving clues in the form of riddles or leaving my 
   weaker enemies alive to show they pose no threat.
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ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-27 04:42 -0600
  Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? dickey@his.com - 2012-07-27 04:00 -0700
    Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-27 10:29 -0600
      Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? dickey@his.com - 2012-07-28 04:45 -0700
        Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-28 05:50 -0600
          Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-28 08:39 -0400
            Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-07-28 15:21 +0200
              Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-28 10:15 -0400
              Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-29 03:54 -0600
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-07-29 13:31 +0200
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-30 05:07 -0600
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2012-07-30 18:27 +0200
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-29 21:13 -0400
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-30 05:08 -0600
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-07-30 07:09 -0500
                Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2012-07-30 10:39 -0400
          Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2012-07-30 18:53 +0000
            Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-07-31 04:43 -0600
              Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2012-07-31 08:03 -0500
      Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-07-31 22:08 -0400
        Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? crankypuss <no@email.thanks> - 2012-08-01 02:43 -0600
          Re: ncurses on Linux how to capture F1 key? Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-08-01 07:34 -0400

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