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From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: borsenkow.msk@sni.de (Andrej Borsenkow)
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu, pws@ifh.de, tovadia@iil.intel.com
Subject: Re: Problems with zsh & HP10.20
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 14:48:29 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199804211348.OAA28452@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00ba01bd6d21$910da1e0$21c9ca95@ao13.mow.sni.de> from "Andrej Borsenkow" at Apr 21, 98 04:32:35 pm

Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
> I don't understand, why ZSH cannot do it, if it tries to initialize cursor
>keys at all.

On some terminals the arrow keys get in the way of other editing actions,
and are better ignored.  termcaps invariably include the k* sequences
for these terminals.

>             Or better leave it to user and explicitly state, that cursor
>keys are *not* bound by default.

I'd like to do this, but a lot of users would no doubt complain about
the missing keybindings.

There is no perfect solution here.

-zefram


  reply	other threads:[~1998-04-21 13:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-04-21 12:32 Andrej Borsenkow
1998-04-21 13:48 ` Andrew Main [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1998-04-21  9:46 Tal Ovadia
1998-04-21 11:59 ` Peter Stephenson
1998-04-21 12:43   ` Andrew Main

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