curses woes

[Rainy]

On 11 Jul 2001 01:06:29 +0200, Iñigo Serna <inigoserna at terra.es> wrote:
> El día 10 Jul 2001 12:11:39 +0400, Oleg Broytmann escribió
>> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Rainy wrote:
>> > while 1:
>> >     c = win.getch()
>> >     if c == curses.KEY_BACKSPACE:
>> >         do_something()
>> >
>> > The problem is that backspace key shows up as ^? and doesn't match the above
>> > test. I also tried doing c == 14 but also without luck. I'm using
>> > curses.wrapper() here.
>> 
>>    Your terminal is incorrectly configured.
>> 
>> man 5 terminfo
>> man tic
>> man stty
> 
> you can use
> 
> print 'key: \'%s\' <=> %c <=> 0x%X <=> %d' % (curses.keyname(c), c & 255, c, c)

Thanks! That's exactly what I needed.

> 
> to learn the key code which is generated and then use it in your code,
> but, of course, this is the wrong way (tm).

But all curses apps use it, seeing that mutt, slrn, etc have no problem with
xterm?

> 
> In my system (a much-modified RedHat Linux 7.1 with ncurses-5.2-8),
> backspace generates code 8 (Ctrl-H) in xterm and gnome-terminal, but
> curses.KEY_BACKSPACE in rxvt.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Iñigo Serna
> 
> 
> 


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