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Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 00:53:19 +0200
From: Igor van den Hoven <ivdhoven AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "Application key pad mode" in cygwin console
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On 8/22/05, Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, Igor van den Hoven wrote:
> 
> > After sending \e= (see man console_codes) to either rxvt and the
> > windows console to enable application key pad mode, pressing keypad 1
> > to 9 shows:
> >
> > \e[8~\e[B\e[6~\e[D\C-k\e[C\e[7~\e[A\e[5~
> >
> > This should be:
> >
> > \eOq\eOr\eOs\eOt\eOu\eOv\eOw\eOx\eOy
> >
> > I think this problem was reported 3 years ago and a patch was
> > submitted, but it looks like this got lost / stuck somewhere in
> > Cygwin's bureaucratic machinery. The discussion is archived at the
> > following link:
> >
> > http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-04/msg00251.html
> >
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-07/msg00554.html
> >
> > This bug cripples a couple of applications and from the looks of it it
> > shouldn't be too much trouble to get it fixed.
> >
> > Much appreciated if anyone can look into this.
> 
> Following the thread on the second message you pointed to, it looks like
> there was no Cygwin copyright assignment filed for the patch submitter.
> Since the patch is substantial, a copyright assignment is required to
> integrate the patch (see <http://cygwin.com/contrib.html>).
> 
> If someone else writes *another* patch (without looking at the above one),
> with correct formatting, submits a copyright assignment, and sends the
> patch to the cygwin-patches list, it has a good chance of being
> integrated, IMHO[*].
> 
> HTH,
>         Igor
> [*] I don't speak for the Cygwin project leaders, of course.
> --
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> 
> If there's any real truth it's that the entire multidimensional infinity
> of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs. /DA
> 

It's been a couple of years so I doubt he's still around.

Anyways, I hope someone can look into it.

Igor

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