Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/11/07/11:08:11
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 04:57:00PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:33:18AM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>>On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 08:11:33AM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:36:09PM -0500, Chris Faylor wrote:
>>>>I see what I was missing. F1 == ^[[[A, Up arrow == ^[[A. F1 has one
>>>>extra bracket.
>>>>
>>>>I think this is also kind of lame but changing it now would probably
>>>>break too many things. I'd like to make it the same as termcap but
>>>>it's too late now.
>>>
>>>What's the problem? It's the same sequence produced by the linux
>>>console.
>>
>>The linux console is lame.
>
>The windows console is lame, too. So it should be ok.
Unfortunately, I don't have the source to the windows console. I do
have the source to the cygwin console and I am distressed to see that
someone could have used better emulation for the function keys in cygwin
but chose not to. If I didn't think that many people were relying on
the current behavior, I would change it.
Why are we having this discussion again?
cgf
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