Subject: Bug#4298: arrow keys in dselect don't work after search

From: Joey Hess <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:28:37 -0400 (EDT)

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.2.13elf

I'm running dselect in an xterm. I go to the "[S]elect" part of it, and
the up and down addor keys scroll through the list of packages. But when I
type "/mosaic\n", to search for mosaic, the arrow keys stop working.
ctrl-p and ctrl-n still work, as do pageup and pagedown and all the other
keys, except for the up and down arrows.

(I have this in Xresources to set up proper key movement characters in an
xterm:

*VT100.Translations: #override <Key>BackSpace:  string(0x7F)\n\
        <Key>Delete:            string(0x04)\n\
        <Key>Home:              string(0x1b) string("[1~")\n\
        <Key>End:               string(0x1b) string("[4~")\n\
        Ctrl<Key>Prior:         string(0x1b) string("[40~")\n\
        Ctrl<Key>Next:          string(0x1b) string("[41~")

)
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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 96 14:32 BST

Joey Hess writes ("Bug#4298: arrow keys in dselect don't work after search"):
...
> keys, except for the up and down arrows.

This is a four-month-old bug in ncurses, which has previously been
reported as #2962 and #3974.  I'm reassigning it to ncurses3.0 and
merging it with those others.

Ian.