ncurses doesn't handle most of these keys at all. And anything beyond what you see in the Open Group spec is non-standard, by definition.
Control-A through Control-Z are actually standard ASCII,1 through 26. On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 3:35 PM, LM <lme...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm trying to double-check that the keys are mapping properly for SDL. > The only documentation on keys that I could turn up was at: > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7908799/xcurses/curses.h.html > > Does anyone have a list of what key values should be returned for what > key combinations. curses.h has some values defined such as ALT_0 - > ALT_9 and ALT_A - ALT_Z. A curses application like hexedit uses > CONTROL_A - CONTROL_Z and CONTROL_SLASH which aren't even documented > by pdcurses. Checking the various back-ends of pdcurses, even its key > translations don't seem to agree with each other. Some pdcurses > back-ends return ALT_BSLASH and some return the backslash with alt > modifier set. > > Does anyone know where to find documentation on what should be valid > key return values or does anyone have recommendations on how they'd > like to see this consistently handled? It would be nice to have > better compatibility with what ncurses does if possible. Thanks. >
