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From: ornstein@fdcv09.DEC (Ian Ornstein PK03/2-28C DTN 223-9145)
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>	While most of the reading community uses EMACS on UNIX perhaps
>(I hope) there is someone who can answer this question:
>
>	I am working on a VAX under VMS 3.7 and have a need to do some
>development work on a DEC-20 under TOPS-20.  My connection is via DECnet
>by setting host and logging on to the 20.  The problem is:
>
>	Under this arrangement ^X is interpreted by the 20's EMACS as C - U
>this means I am unable to use any of the control - X commands.  Now I have
>gotten by by the means of ESC-X and typing the command...which is very
>tedious. The commands for using multiple windows become extremely awkward.
>Does someone have a workarround/patch/fix for this?

	For my first request to the net (above) I received several replys.
The first approach given was to attempt to redefine ^X. This I might have
attemped in Mlisp but the 20's Emacs is implemented in teco. At any rate
I found the following paragraph in the info documentation which suggests
(to me) that another prefix command may be created, but didn't say anything
about binding ^X functionality to some other key.  The way I read it was
if I were to define another prefix character, I would also have to define
all the command that used ^X to use my new prefix. Here is the paragraph:

EMACS  Node: Characters, Previous: Screen, Up: Top, Next: Basic


There is another prefix character, Control-X which is used as the
beginning of a large set of two-character commands known as "C-X
commands".  C-X is not a bit prefix character; C-X A is not a
circumlocution for any single character, and it must be typed as two
characters on any terminal.  You can create new prefix characters when
you customize.  *Note Prefix: (CONV)Prefix.

----------------------end of INFO paragraph-------------------------------

Thankfully, the real answer turned out to be so simple that I have to share 
it with all of you:
	
	before set host to the DEC System-20
        $ SET TERMINAL/PASSALL

I caution that it is important to switch this back to nopassall if you
return to the VAX to work.  I didn't and tried to go in to VAX mail...

I would be interested in receiving examples of teco emacs.init files
if anyone desires to send mail.

Thanks for all your help,
				Ian Ornstein
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