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From: DERMOTT@[192.12.62.20] (Dave Dermott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: MicroEmacs cursor keys
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Date: 13 Jun 89 14:30:25 GMT
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  Wilson Small writes:
<     I'm trying to find out if anybody can tell me how to get the
<cursor keys to work when using MicroEMACS (ver 3.9e) on a remote system.
<I am using UNITERM in the VT100 mode, my term on the host is defined
<as a vt100 and i cannot get the cursor keys to act right.  They work
<fine on vi and other applications but not on emacs!  Is there something
<I gots to put in my emacs setup file (.emacsrc) to make it recognize the 
<ST cursor keys?

  I am using MicroEmacs 3.9e on VAX-VMS and UNIX with various VT100 type
terminals and emulators( including UNITERM) and the cursor keys work. Maybe
the MicroEmacs needs to be recompiled with #define VT100 1 (in estruct.h).
This allows decoding of 3 byte ANSI escape sequences for cursor keys ,
PF1-PF4 and keypad. It still won't decode the 5 byte VT200 function keys 
(F1- F20) ( ESC[nn~) but it is possible to write macros to do that.
Apparently the new MicroEmacs 3.10 (why not 4.0?) handles
special function keys better.

David Dermott
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