slider problem

[Jasse Jansson]

On 2016-04-28 08:49, John Marino wrote:
> On 4/28/2016 7:27 AM, Tomohiro Kusumi wrote:
>> Key mappings as well as appearance of ncurses is often different
>> depending on term type.
>> I've also seen ncurses behaves differently while in screen or tmux.
>>
>> I used to make my programs have different mappings (for ones that i
>> know of) though this may not be the right approach.
>>
>>
>> 2016-04-28 10:28 GMT+09:00 Predrag Punosevac <punosevac72 at gmail.com>:
>>> I just noticed that if I use 1 instead of F1, 2 instead of F2, 3 
>>> instead
>>> of F3, 4 instead of F4 everything works as expected.
>>>
>>> I forgot to mention in my first e-mail that I am using vanilla xterm 
>>> and
>>> cwm (Calm Window Manager from the base of OpenBSD).
>
> I confirm that "1" key is alias of "F1", "2" for "F2" etc.
> These aliases exist for exactly the reason you encountered: sometimes 
> the function keys don't work in a given terminal, but the number keys 
> always work.

How do you do to type the numbers 1,2... when you want number instead of 
function keys ???