OpenEuphoria

Re: Keys in EE for Linux

• Posted by Neil & Lindsay Harvey <vk2bnh at GLOBALFREEWAY.COM.AU> Mar 18, 2000
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Daniel Johnson wrote:

> Up until two minutes ago my escape key did not work in EE. I just patched
> keys.e (in Irv's Linux EE obviously).
>
> Linux return alt characters as 27 followed by the character.
>
> If you press escape the following character is -1 apparently, meaning that
> when you add 1000 (like Irv does) you get 999.
>
> By changing keys.e line 93 from
>
>   93:    ESC         = 1027 -- was 1000
>
> to
>
>   93:    ESC         = 999 --was 1027 -- was 1000
>
> escape works fine. This means I can get rid of menus and dialogs without
> having to choose something which is nice. Do other people have the same
> prob ? I'm using Debian 2.0

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I have the same problem. Thanks for the bugfix. I use Mandrake 6.0

Neil Harvey