Re: LYNX-DEV -DNO_KEYPAD and Linux

[T.E.Dickey]

> In the near future I'd like to submit the patch for mouse support
> under ncurses; current ncurses snapshots support using the mouse on
> the Linux console, in addition to xterms.  Before I can do that,
> there's one issue that needs resolving.  The linux-ncurses target in
> the Makefile has -DNO_KEYPAD defined; the effect of this is to #ifdef
> out a switch which handles keypad-mode keys like KEY_DOWN or KEY_END.
> It would be preferable to put the KEY_MOUSE case in this second switch
> statement, and ncurses does support these keys.
(remember to #ifdef NCURSES_VERSION)
 
NO_KEYPAD shouldn't be (afaik) defined for any of the SVr4 curses
configurations.

>       Removing the definition and recompiling produces a Lynx binary
> that seems to run fine.  So, does anyone know why -DNO_KEYPAD is there
> for Linux?
someone probably just didn't read the documentation.

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Thomas E. Dickey
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