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From: d-yang@cs.columbia.edu (David Yang)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: vt100 keypad codes on xemacs
Summary: Customizing up-arrow, etc. (on HDS-200)
Message-ID: <365@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 89 04:33:40 GMT
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Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science
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On the HDS-200, the up-arrow key is bound to the
key sequence ESC [ A.  I have tried

(define-global-key "\e[A" 'previous-line)

which doesn't work-- emacs is still reading
ESC [, doing the (backward-paragraph) command,
and then printing the letter A.
So,
1) Is the define-global-key okay?
2) If the problem is the same one as the vt100 question,
   how does one get emacs to take the 3-character sequence?
   (e.g., if it's a termcap problem, it'd be really nice
	  to know what in the termcap to fix, though I suppose
	  that would be a question for comp.terminal.)

Thanks in advance,
David Yang
d-yang@cs.columbia.edu