On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:08:00PM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Carles Pina i Estany wrote: > > In the ChangeLog from Grub (not Grub2) I can read: > > -------- > > 1999-03-13 Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > [...] > > > > * shared_src/shared.h (KEY_DELETE): Rename to KEY_DC, for > > compatibility with curses. > > (KEY_INSERT): Rename to KEY_IC. > > (KEY_PGDN): Rename to KEY_NPAGE. > > (KEY_PGUP): Rename to KEY_PPAGE. > > -------- > > > > These names are still valid in libncurses5. > > wtf?! > > What idiocy is this ??
Calm down! Or you'll scare him :-) > Making it really hard for normal people to > understand what those means. I would go for understandability and not to > be "compatible" with curses internally... curses terminal driver can use > what ever it wants. Agreed. If we want to be compatible with curses code, we could just add a layer. Or even define macro aliases (e.g. #define KEY_IC KEY_INSERT). -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
