terminal emulation problem, or a screwup on my part?

[Frank Cox]

On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:04:46 -0430
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> Try xev(1) to see what is actually happening when you hit a key.

Unless I understand less about the console than I think I do, I'm pretty sure
this issue is beyond that.

ESC
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1
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So the input is there.   It's not being captured properly by ncurses for
reasons unknown to me. 

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