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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.