Philip Tong wrote:
> What is the most standard method of capturing the unique codes of keys
> pressed?
It depends.
> I'm writing a program and is using ncurses library. I would like to
> write a routine which will allow me to control the data entry for a
> string of characters with editing functions (backspace, insert keys and
> arrow keys).
>
> What is the most standard and correct method to capture the keys
> pressed?
For (n)curses, use one of the getch() functions, described in the
curs_getch(3) manpage.
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