[slang-users] Keyboard modifiers

[leslie.polzer at gmx.net]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:58:10PM -0400, John E. Davis wrote:

> leslie.polzer at gmx.net <leslie.polzer at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> >  I would like to get the state of keyboard modifiers with the SLang
> >C library, to discern between TAB and Shift+TAB.
>
> Under windows, such support could be added because the win32 API
> provides that information. Under other systems the answer depends upon
> the terminal and its ability to provide slang a unique key-sequence
> for Shift-TAB. I see that in the version of rxvt that I am using,
> Shift-TAB generates the 3 character sequence "ESC [ Z". So, I could
> exploit that in the slang apps that I use by binding the key-sequence
> "\e[Z" to some function.
Shift+TAB returns the same value as TAB with the terminals I have tested.
  Is there any way to change this behaviour, apart from switching
terminals?

  As a side note, Shift+TAB is working perfectly with some Curses
application I tested.  Any guess on how they'd do that?

  Leslie

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