Re: Snow Leopard Cursor Keys broken.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Nicholas Cole wrote:

> > The script you've sent uses keyname for the first part, which is the only
> > one that _could_ produce "KEY_LEFT".
>
> Yes, I should have made that clear.  I just copied and pasted a script
> I sometimes use for debugging this sort of thing.
>
> On the version in 10.6.3, though, the other values are also different,
> so I get:
>
> D and 68
> A and 65
> B and 66
> C and 67
>
> Where I should get KEY_LEFT and 260 etc.
>
> It seems I'm not the only one who has encountered this and I have
> reported it to Apple.
>
> How do I look up the patch date?

More than one way:
        a) if tic and infocmp are installed, they call curses_version(),
           and display the patch-date with the -V option, e.g.,

~ (101) tic -V
ncurses 5.7.20100410

        b) if the development header-files are installed, those define
           the same information, e.g.,

#define NCURSES_VERSION_MAJOR 5
#define NCURSES_VERSION_MINOR 7
#define NCURSES_VERSION_PATCH 20100410

Lacking either of these (or a program that can call curses_version()), I'd 
do a "strings" on the ncurses library, grep for ncurses.  (If your system 
has split-out the tinfo library, it would be there):

ncurses 5.7.20100410

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