DOS ain't dead

ANSI escapes for input (Developers)

posted by kerravon, Ligao, Free World North, 18.07.2023, 02:08

I have a fullscreen editor (microemacs 3.6) working
satisfactorily on PDOS/386. Running under Windows
requires a hack to get around a bug that I haven't
been able to find, and I don't use that anyway, so
it hasn't been a priority.

I now realize that DOS+HX+doslfn running under ArcaOS
(OS/2) is probably the environment I really want.

But traditionally DOS has only provided ANSI.SYS for
screen output, but not keyboard input.

I want the ESC [ A etc for cursor keys to come through
to my apps (like microemacs).

It is only with Windows 10 that Microsoft started allowing
that.

I would like to know if there is a reason keyboard input
for MSDOS is not ANSI standard (no driver), and whether
this should be changed with a DOS driver or in HX.

Also, the ANSI standard allows 2 ESC to be sent when the
user presses ESC, and this is what I want (and what PDOS
does), but it is not what Windows does. So I'd like this
to be configurable.

I was just about to raise an HX issue on github when I
realized that this may be a DOS question.

Thanks. Paul.

Complete thread:

• ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 18.07.2023, 02:08
  • ANSI escapes for input - mbbrutman, 24.07.2023, 03:01
    • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 24.07.2023, 15:18
      • ANSI escapes for input - DosWorld, 08.02.2024, 23:03
        • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 09.02.2024, 13:17
    • ANSI escapes for input - ecm, 24.07.2023, 17:01
      • ANSI escapes for input - mbbrutman, 25.07.2023, 03:35
        • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 25.07.2023, 12:34
          • ANSI escapes for input - KormaX, 25.07.2023, 12:57
            • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 27.07.2023, 07:15
              • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 30.07.2023, 09:08
                • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 31.07.2023, 15:21
                • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 07.02.2024, 08:23
                  • ANSI escapes for input - bocke, 07.02.2024, 08:45
                    • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 09.02.2024, 10:00
                      • ANSI escapes for input - bocke, 09.02.2024, 20:10
                        • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 09.02.2024, 22:07
          • ANSI escapes for input - mbbrutman, 27.07.2023, 04:51
            • ANSI escapes for input - kerravon, 27.07.2023, 07:25