Re: Keypad bindings for num pad

Op 25-04-2022 om 02:48 schreef [email protected]:
> I'm on Ubuntu 20.04.4 and recently upgraded from nano 2.8 to 4.8.

There is no nano-2.8.  I guess you upgraded from Bionic (Ubuntu 18.04),
from nano-2.9.3.

> My /etc/nanorc file had "set rebindkeypad" and that was the only way I could
> use the num pad correctly in nano.  Since that upgrade that directive no
> longer exists and I'm no longer able to type numbers on the num pad inside
> nano.  Everything works fine in bash.

What terminal do you use?  And what is the output of 'env | grep TERM'?
Does nano work fine with keypad keys when you use xterm instead?

> I can launch nano with -K and the num pad works as expected.  But surely there
> is a better way to fix this than with an alias in my bashrc.

Did you try reading the manual?  Run 'man nano' and search for -K.  See
that its long option is --rawsequences.  So, try using 'set rawsequences'
in your .nanorc.

> I noticed that in 9c1c6c18a[1] this was no longer declared a bug but a
> problem with ncurses.

Not at all -- it's *not* a problem with ncurses, it's a problem with your
terminal: it is producing escape sequences that do not match the TERM that
it sets.  When you run 'nano --ignorerc' and then type M-V KP7 (where KP7
is the 7 key on the keypad while NumLock is on), what sequence is shown?

Benno