Re: [open-cobol-list] Improvement to screen handling.

[Kevin Monceaux]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 01:21:53PM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 09:34:37AM -0500, john Culleton wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to back up to a previous field with <shift><tab>? If not
> > this would be a useful addition.
> 
> It's definitely possible.  Version 1.3J from Japan has that functionality.  

That's the version I have installed at the moment.  I should have looked at
the source before I replied.  It looks like versions 1.1 and 2.0 also test
for KEY_BTAB and have code to handle that key.  For those curious about how
it's done, look in libcob/screenio.c.  The <shift><tab> key works for me,
running programs under GNU screen under rxvt-unicode on Linux.  If it's not
working for someone it's probably a problem with the termcap/terminfo
back-tab key configuration, the cbt and kcbt settings,  for the terminal
or terminal emulator being used.  



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