X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fcurs_getch.3x;h=1ef0601388a8fe5f344155b471ee715dbe207b71;hb=5c085efbe35681c3847b3ced598635f083810865;hp=e81923f0570cd5cba601b33284166a3e940ed7d8;hpb=b9a2bd87a73d976d1c916815e2d370bf1090d1b2;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/man/curs_getch.3x b/man/curs_getch.3x index e81923f0..1ef06013 100644 --- a/man/curs_getch.3x +++ b/man/curs_getch.3x @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ .\" authorization. * .\"*************************************************************************** .\" -.\" $Id: curs_getch.3x,v 1.43 2015/09/19 22:25:05 tom Exp $ +.\" $Id: curs_getch.3x,v 1.44 2015/12/20 01:43:03 tom Exp $ .TH curs_getch 3X "" .na .hy 0 @@ -118,9 +118,17 @@ returned by the next call to \fBwgetch\fR. There is just one input queue for all windows. .PP .SS Predefined key-codes -The following special keys, defined in \fB\fR, may be returned by -\fBgetch\fR if \fBkeypad\fR has been enabled. +The following special keys are defined in \fB\fR. +.bP +Except for the special case \fBKEY_RESIZE\fP, +it is necessary to enable \fBkeypad\fR for \fBgetch\fP to return these codes. +.bP Not all of these are necessarily supported on any particular terminal. +.bP +The naming convention may seem obscure, with some apparent +misspellings (such as "RSUME" for "resume"). +The names correspond to the long terminfo capability names for the keys, +and were defined long ago, in the 1980s. .PP .TS center tab(/) ;