Re: lynx-dev keymap patches

[John E. Davis]

Earlier today I wrote:
># where KEYSYM is an integer.  A keysym is essentually with the lynx.rc file
># calls a 'keystroke', but I think that keysym is a more appropriate name.
># The keysym integer and may be expressed in various ways:
>#
>#       as a decimal integer:  97
>#       hexadecimal:           0x61
>#       Octal:                 0141
>#       as an ASCII character: 'a'
[...]
>#
># All other keys map to themselves, e.g, 
>#
>setkey "a"             'a'

Unfortunately, the 'a' form does not work with slang 1.2.1 due to a
bug.  It should work with 0.99-xx but I have not tried those versions
because I consider them to be obsolete.  Once I realized the problem,
I released slang 1.2.2 with the bug fix.  For what its worth, here is
the patch to slang/src/slcmd.c:

--- slcmd.c~    Sun Apr 12 23:53:16 1998
+++ slcmd.c     Fri Apr 24 02:13:17 1998
@@ -222,7 +222,9 @@
                  len -= 2;
                  b[len] = 0;
                  guess_type = SLANG_INT_TYPE;
-                 (void) _SLexpand_escaped_char (b, &ch);
+                 ch = *b;
+                 if (ch == '\\')
+                   (void) _SLexpand_escaped_char (b, &ch);
                  sprintf (buf, "%d", (unsigned char) ch);
                  len = strlen (buf);
               }


--John