<div dir="ltr">Feeling for Bill. Always amazing to watch you guys spar and sometimes the question never gets addressed.<div><br></div><div>I have posed this query to Ken previously with no response and it may just be that I am perceived as naive or unsophisticated.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Is there a way to make input in fields operate in the now standard Win/Appl/Android way (non DEC-VT100), ie- DELETE KEY deletes the character the cursor is on, SPACE inserts a space. I have the BS working correctly via PUTTY.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am assuming there is no way to have the ENTER key insert a newline in screen creation or output formatting, but this is not for the enduser anyway and we don't utilize multi-line fields.</div><div>
<br></div><div>Thanks in advance. If there is no way to accomplish this, a simple no will suffice.</div><div><br></div><div>Enjoy your weekend all.</div><div>Seth</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 5:05 PM, William J. McEachran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
All I need is a 'how to' control the DELETE key document.<br>
That key can do nothing in filePro and I'm good with it.<br>
If it deletes a character that's even better. :-)<br>
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Kenneth Brody <<a href="mailto:kenbrody@spamcop.net">kenbrody@spamcop.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 3/20/2014 3:54 PM, William J. McEachran wrote:<br>
><br>
>> I just don't think that hitting the DEL key should behave so unexpectedly<br>
>> ... inserting "~3"'s in fields.<br>
>><br>
><br>
> What would you expect a program to do when a sequence of characters comes<br>
> in, which is not defined to be any particular "keystroke"? Numerous<br>
> defined keystrokes start with "ESC [", but none are then followed by a "3".<br>
> What would be your "expected behavior" when "ESC [ 3 ~" is sent to<br>
> filePro? (Remember, filePro has no way of knowing that a single keystroke<br>
> generated those characters, up to and including the tilde.)<br>
><br>
> [...]<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Kenneth Brody<br>
><br>
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Bill McEachran<br>
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