From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: GRUB_CONSOLE_KEY_NPAGE/PPAGE codes
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:08:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B18760.8050609@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080824123304.GA4984@pina.cat>
Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> In the ChangeLog from Grub (not Grub2) I can read:
> --------
> 1999-03-13 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@trick.fig.org>
>
> [...]
>
> * shared_src/shared.h (KEY_DELETE): Rename to KEY_DC, for
> compatibility with curses.
> (KEY_INSERT): Rename to KEY_IC.
> (KEY_PGDN): Rename to KEY_NPAGE.
> (KEY_PGUP): Rename to KEY_PPAGE.
> --------
>
> These names are still valid in libncurses5.
wtf?!
What idiocy is this ?? Making it really hard for normal people to
understand what those means. I would go for understandability and not to
be "compatible" with curses internally... curses terminal driver can use
what ever it wants.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-24 16:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-23 10:16 GRUB_CONSOLE_KEY_NPAGE/PPAGE codes Carles Pina i Estany
2008-08-23 10:34 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2008-08-23 13:03 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2008-08-24 12:33 ` Carles Pina i Estany
2008-08-24 16:08 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2008-08-30 11:25 ` Robert Millan
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