The function tui_dispatch_ctrl_char() has an old workaround (from 1999)
for buggy terminals and/or ncurses library that don't return page
up/down keys as single characters. Because the workaround is so old, I
think the bug it is targetting is no longer relevant anymore.
But more importantly, the workaround is itself buggy: it 1) performs a
blocking call to wgetch() and 2) if the key returned by wgetch() does
not make up a relevant key sequence it throws away the input instead of
pushing it back via ungetch(). And indeed the workaround breaks Alt-key
sequences under TERM=xterm because of bug #2.
So this patch removes the buggy workaround and tidies up the function
accordingly.
I personally tested this change on a recent xterm (with TERM=xterm) in
Fedora 20 and had no problems with having ncurses properly interpret
page up/down keys. And Alt-key sequences now work when TERM=xterm too.
gdb/ChangeLog:
* tui/tui-command.c: Remove include of <ctype.h>.
(tui_dispatch_ctrl_char): Remove workaround for xterm terminals.
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