How to get a function key in BSD curses

[Gregory Gulik]

In article <502 at seer.UUCP> bll at seer.UUCP (Brad Lanam) writes:
>
>    Is there some easy way to get a function key using Berkeley curses?
>I don't have access to the documentation, and the O'Reilly "curses" book
>doesn't mention anything about the special keys.

Use the keypad(win,bf) function.

For example, I always do:	keypad(stdscr,1);
to turn on keypad mode.

Then, you can use the getch() function to read the keys in.  Look
at your system's curses.h file for the key definitions.  Mine has
a lot of comments explaining what they are.

Oh, you may want to call cbreak() to get into one-key-at-a-time
mode.

-greg

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