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> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:07:27 -0500
> From: JT Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
> 
> -: > More importantly, all this seems excessive to me: why not just have a
> -: > table with an escape sequence for each extended key we want to
> -: > support, and be done with it?
> 
> I don't know, so I'm asking: is a TERMCAP file the canonical place for
> _all_ such cursor movement and key maps?

Either termcap or terminfo (the latter is the more modern facility),
but in any case it is not done directly.  Instead of accessing the
termcap/terminfo database directly, programs use functions like
tgetent and tgetstr to find out what is the escape sequence that is
sent by a certain special key.