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Subject: Re: when using emacs, get the keymap right!
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Date: Thu, 18-Jun-87 19:27:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 18 19:27:31 1987
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Summary: But it does!  Well, GNU does...

In article <1183@osiris.UUCP> jdia@osiris.UUCP (Josh Diamond) writes:
>In article <1283@cullvax.UUCP>, drw@cullvax.UUCP (Dale Worley) writes:
>
>Why not make emacs understand a database about terminal function keys.
>It would have to be better than termcap/curses, as that only supports up
>to 10 function keys in addition to cursor control keys (I think).  Why
>wasn't emacs designed to at least understand cursor keys? They are already
>in curses.
>
>Also, many terminals, like the vt200, have in the area of 24 pfkeys, plus
>a numeric keypad that can be put in "application" mode, plus dedicated keys
>for Help, "Do", find, select, insert, remove, prev-screen, and next-screen.
>In fact, the majority of newly designed terminals have similar keyboards.

Well, GNU does support vt200 and vt100 cursor keys, function keys and
keypads. The variable term-file-prefix determines the load path for the
special files that set up the appropriate keybindings (This is usually the
term subdirectory in your local elisp source directory).  Emacs then looks at
you terminal type and automatically load the appropriate file (vt100.el,
vt220.el, etc..)  then all you need do is M-x enable-arrow-keys (in version
18 [because this loses the binding for backward-paragraph, some loss :-)])
I think version 17 does this automatically, and you're in business...


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