From: utzoo!decvax!cca!z Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Re: EMACS control character warning Article-I.D.: cca.1333 Posted: Fri Jun 11 11:39:56 1982 Received: Sat Jun 12 01:08:42 1982 References: sri-unix.1715 One compromise is to use terminals which have settable XON/XOFF characters, such as the Ann Arbor Ambassador. Although my EMACS normally runs in raw mode, if it's running on an Ambassador at 19200 baud, it runs in CBREAK mode and uses ^^/^@ for flow control. These characters seem to impact the EMACS character set the least, and I simply move the Set Mark and Prefix Control commands to function keys. Also, I don't know about other EMACSes, but function keys which generate escape sequences pose no problem for mine due to the dynamic rebinding feature. Escape is rebound from Prefix-Meta to Prefix Character for Function Keys, and the various function keys are then just subcommands of this prefix. One of these function keys is typically used as a Meta key. One of our most popular terminals here is the Zenith, and EMACS uses all of its function keys, both shifted and unshifted; we've even had special EMACS keycaps made up for these terminals.