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| author | Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> | 2013-05-26 05:21:34 +0200 |
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| committer | Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> | 2013-05-26 05:21:34 +0200 |
| commit | cc10e91b2a4ca1920de6d6d5090ccf0ca071cc86 (patch) | |
| tree | 6063c1dbcb681c66f1f7f5d95c63c3c2ed0ea8b3 /crawl-ref/source/libunix.cc | |
| parent | 2560baa3b23bb7682484d117dfdf000ab0a60938 (diff) | |
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Expand the kbs comment.
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| -rw-r--r-- | crawl-ref/source/libunix.cc | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/libunix.cc b/crawl-ref/source/libunix.cc index eeb8419d55..14a01558ca 100644 --- a/crawl-ref/source/libunix.cc +++ b/crawl-ref/source/libunix.cc @@ -386,8 +386,12 @@ int unixcurses_get_vi_key(int keyin) case KEY_SRIGHT: return 'L'; case KEY_BTAB: return CK_SHIFT_TAB; case KEY_BACKSPACE: - // If key_backspace (kbs) is ctrl-h, curses generates KEY_BACKSPACE - // for the ctrl-h key. Work around that by converting back to CK_BKSP. + // If terminfo's entry for backspace (kbs) is ctrl-h, curses + // generates KEY_BACKSPACE for the ctrl-h key. Work around that by + // converting back to CK_BKSP. + // Note that this mangling occurs entirely on the machine Crawl runs + // on (and even within crawl's process) rather than where the user's + // terminal is, so this check is reliable. static const char * const kbs = tigetstr("kbs"); static const int bskey = (kbs && kbs != (const char *) -1 && kbs == string("\010")) ? CK_BKSP |