PuTTY alt-keys (was Re: 16-User Network)

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Fairlight wrote:

> The honourable and venerable Bob Rasmussen spoke thus:
> > 
> > A fresh install of PuTTY and some testing appear to reveal that when you 
> > hit the Alt-A combination, it sends an Escape followed by an A, and 
> > similar for other keys.
> 
> Okay, so ncurses takes meta-keystroke for Alt.  Good to know.
> 
> But what are your options for trying to make Anzio do that?  Even knowing
> the mechanics, your product is hugely alt-key driven.  It would almost
> require a whole new mode.  :(

The only alt keys used in Anzio are accelerators to menu items. But macros 
take precedence, so if you define <alt-A> to send <esc>A that should work. 
It's just that there are quite a few of these. I'll consider an option for 
the PuTTY approach in a future release.

Regards,
....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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