> I've never seen a VT220 terminal nor I have its manual. 

it has more keys (more than a PC-keyboard)
  
> > false (numlock makes the keypad behave the same, otherwise). 
>  
> Could you explain that better? I'm not sure I understood what you meant. 

the numeric keypad sends either escape sequences or just numbers.
  
> Just one more thing: it's not by bashing slang that you're going to make 
> ncurses better or make it to be accepted by people who prefer slang. You're 

frankly - I don't bash slang, but simply respond to the 2-3 things that
people repeat about it versus ncurses without knowing what they're talking
about.

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