Mon, 7 Jul 2025 08:13:46 -0400 - Haines Brown via Dng <dng@???>:

> I have a CLI application for which keyboard input has unexpeted
> resultd. When I type a leter it does not appear but somethig else
> happens. My question is how to distinguish a bug in the application
> from problems with my operating system (Devuan daelalus with no
> desktop environment). Is there a way to test CLI keybiding?
>
> The text-based applicaton is lifelines, which reads from and wrotes to
> a GEDCOM datebase. I installed three slightly different versions of
> the application and compiled one from source, although none are the
> old version I used to use wihout problem. I have not been able to get
> it.
>
> This application presents fields in which to type input. In one
> field, when I type a letter instead of appearing it seems instead to
> remove the carriage return so that the next field becomes appended to
> the field I'm working on. In anther field when I type a letter the
> pointer simply jumps to the begining of the label of that field.
>
> This occur in four different installations of Devuan, although all are
> daedalus. It there any way I can determine in which direction I should
> go?


If the application is https://lifelines.sourceforge.net/, then there is a
CODESET section in the documantation:
https://lifelines.sourceforge.net/manual.3.0.39/ll-userguide.html#AEN352
Maybe the problem is related to characters encoding?

Regards
alexus


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