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From: greg@xios.XIOS.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: when using emacs, get the keymap right!
Message-ID: <320@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 09:07:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: xios.320
Posted: Mon Jun 22 09:07:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 25-Jun-87 04:54:37 EDT
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Reply-To: greg@sdn.UUCP (Greg Franks)
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In article <1183@osiris.UUCP> jdia@osiris.UUCP 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.

SysV, Rel3 curses supports up to 64 PF keys, up from 10 in SysV, Rel2. 
In addition the newer version of curses supports quite a bit more
dedicated function keys.  

I understand that jove can be made to understand function keys quite
easily. 
-- 
Greg Franks     (613) 725-5411          "Vermont ain't flat"
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(Other paths will undoubtably work too - your mileage will vary)