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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: vt100 cursor fix for elm
Message-ID: <22356@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 9 May 88 00:24:49 GMT
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Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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> 2) The cursor keys are only checked for the first character after an 
> escape for a cursor movement.  This won't work for a vt100, so the patch
> makes it look for the second character after an escape iff the first
> char. is the same for cursor up and cursor down (I know groddy groddy).

Instead of special case code for HP terminals (Dave Taylor's environment)
and every user putting in special hacks for favorite terminals, Elm should
really be made to use termcap/termio correctly and do things right.  Vi
does it, emacs does it, Mush does it, why doesn't elm?

Mike Khaw
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