RE: [LINUX5250] Keyboard mapping - feedback

[Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

If you're going to do that, maybe you should make it something else
(like K_PREVFIELD, K_NEXTFIELD) so that we can allow the two different
functions to co-exist.

Thanks!


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Buck Calabro wrote:
>
> OK, I added the following to the key down table in winterm.c
> { VK_SHIFT    VK_LEFT,         K_PREVWORD  , 0, 1 },
> { VK_SHIFT    VK_RIGHT,        K_NEXTWORD  , 0, 1 },
>
> and it maps to the appropriate functions just fine.  Alas, the function
> doesn't do what I want it to do.  They move the cursor to the next/last
> non-blank character.  I would like to move to the next/last field whether
> it's blank or not (like the option column in PDM.)
>
> So, I have a look around to see where the K_PREVWORD is used, and by
> burrowing in enough places, I see that PREVWORD is called in display.c and
> implemented in dbuffer.c.  When I get a chance, I will try to change
> tn5250_dbuffer_prevword to go to the field boundary, not just to the next
> non-blank.
>
> Thanks for the tips.  I will let the list know how I make out. (Green screen
> guy trepidation showing.)
>   --buck