On Tue, 3 Oct 2006, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Thomas Dickey skrev:
>> It should mean that the terminal responds to the escape sequences listed
>> in the termcap/terminfo for the given name vt100, etc., as the terminal
>> type is documented (for vt100 that's a hardware specification, for xterm,
>> that's the program I maintain).
>
> And it don't even need to be escape sequences. It all depends on the 
> terminal...

sure - there are booleans, numbers and strings that are used for function 
keys.  The booleans and numbers tell the application how the escape 
sequences work together.  Generally the function keys are escape sequences 
(not always of course).

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