Research terminfo(5) keycodes - The NetBSD Project

Research terminfo(5) keycodes The NetBSD Project

Status: Closed Time to complete: 48 hrs Mentors: blymn, Julian Coleman, Julian Fagir Tags: research, man, C

terminfo(5) is a library to describe the capabilities of a terminal.
As such, it also has a code for all the special function keys that are on a keyboard. The new terminfo(5) manpage lists all these keys, but not their function. You have to research what the single keys do and insert the description into the list.
This bug has also been reported as "lib/47090 - terminfo(5) lacks descriptions for key definitions".

Uploaded Work

File name/URL	File size	Date submitted
terminfo.patch	19.9 KB	January 06 2013 23:22 UTC
terminfo2.patch	23.1 KB	January 07 2013 02:36 UTC

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Task Claimed by Jenna A December 3 2012 02:07 UTC

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Task Claimed by Matthew January 6 2013 16:09 UTC

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Task Assigned by gnrp January 6 2013 18:52 UTC

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Ready for review by Matthew January 6 2013 23:23 UTC

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A few keys missing by gnrp January 7 2013 01:31 UTC

Two caveats: a) Please make the definition column of the table not bold.

b) There are some keys missing, please research them (and optionally, provide sources), like hue_light_saturation, lpi_changes_yes, enter_top_hl_mode, enter_underline_mode, enter_upward_mode, key_f10-key_f9. ptr_non, ptr_off, ptr_on.

Task Needs More Work by gnrp January 7 2013 01:31 UTC

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Ready for review by Matthew January 7 2013 02:36 UTC

The work on this task is ready to be reviewed.

Typos in NetBSD manual page? by Julian Coleman January 7 2013 14:55 UTC

Hi,

Looking at the Open Group document and also the Edinburgh Univesrity page, I wonder if the following are typographical errors in the NetBSD manual page (NetBSD version on left, "correct" version on right):

hue_light_saturation       hue_lightness_saturation
lpi_changes_yes            lpi_changes_res
down_half_time             down_half_line
enter_near_quality_letter enter_near_letter_quality
enter_quality_near_letter enter_near_letter_quality (* I can't see this in the NetBSD manual page)
ptr_non                    prtr_non
ptr_off                    prtr_off
ptr_on                     prtr_on

Would you agree?

Thanks,

I think so by Matthew January 7 2013 21:57 UTC

While I can't be sure, that's what I thought after seeing the slight differences. I was concerned that ptr_ had something to do with a pointer but I couldn't find any references to that searching so I assumed that it was short for "printer".

But, remember the typos would be in the NetBSD libterminfo code not just its man page. I'd assume they are typos because no references to those keys exist in other man pages.

Thank you! by gnrp January 7 2013 22:21 UTC

Btw, you didn't fix the problem with the name being written in bold letters, but that's just replacing two letters in genman. Anyway, you did as you should, thank you!

jdc: They are not typographical errors in the NetBSD manpage, but they are errors in term.h as well.

Task Closed by gnrp January 7 2013 22:22 UTC

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