[syslinux] keystrokes
Ferenc Wagner
wferi at niif.hu
Sat Sep 6 11:20:03 PDT 2014
Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> writes:
>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Ady <ady-sf at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> What actions are _supposed_ to be triggered by each of:
>>>
>>> [Ctrl-J]
>>> [Ctrl-M]
>>>
>>> in the Syslinux command line in version 6.03-pre20?
>>
>> They should do nothing special but either might be interpreted like
>> an <enter>.
>
> Well, for a common user, "nothing special" doesn't seem exactly the
> same as "<enter>".
>
> I had already seen [Ctrl+J] being the same as [Enter] in "cli.c", but
> I couldn't find the meaning (or intention of) [Ctrl+M].
get_key() returns 13 (ASCII CR, \r) for Enter, just like for Ctrl-M.
Ctrl-J is LF (\n). Either or both is used to terminate lines under
different operating systems, so it makes sense to handle them the same.
> [Ctrl+M] _seems_ to be behaving as [Enter], but since it is not in
> "cli.c", I decided to post here in the mailing list.
See above> Ctrl-M _is_ Enter, in some sense.
--
Regards,
Feri.
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