"F1 for help" doesn't do anything

[stevenhoneyman]

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]

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]

If some shortcuts fail, try

• on shell prompt
• "cat" then enter
• press the key

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]

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]

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?