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View and edit files in hexadecimal or in ASCII
http://rigaux.org/hexedit.html
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"F1 for help" doesn't do anything #4

Open stevenhoneyman opened 10 years ago

stevenhoneyman commented 10 years ago

F10 to quit works, so my F-keys must be recognized... but F1 does nothing at all when it should bring up the help according to the man page.

rsaxvc commented 8 years ago

It brings up the help for me. However, it does not in my X terminal emulator, only on a terminal or virtual terminal. You might check to see if your terminal-emulator or window-manager is eating the F1 key.

prigaux commented 8 years ago

If some shortcuts fail, try

For example for me: % cat ^[[11~

Which corresponds to https://github.com/pixel/hexedit/blob/master/interact.c#L679 else if (streq(tmp, "11~" /* F1 on a rxvt */)) help();

PartialVolume commented 3 years ago

I've found F1 doesn't work in the KDE Dolphin file manager in the embedded konsole window, but does work in a separate konsole window.

[Removed my previous comments regarding buildroot as I need to investigate the buildroot implementation further.]

PartialVolume commented 3 years ago

F1 doesn't work in buildroot because buildroot doesn't really support man pages by design due to it's target audience of embedded systems developers. Although I can install man pages in buildroot and pull in nroff it does mean a load of unnecessary man pages get installed for other software.

What are your feeling about having the hexedit help internal to hexedit rather than using man pages?