Path: utzoo!yunexus!telly!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!unido!gmdzi!wittig From: wittig@gmdzi.UUCP (Georg Wittig) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: Re: VT100 keypad codes on Gnu Emacs Message-ID: <1338@gmdzi.UUCP> Date: 18 Oct 89 11:33:22 GMT Article-I.D.: gmdzi.1338 References: <8910061359.AA13718@sn1987a.compass.com> Organization: GMD - German National Research Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 28 In compass!worley@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (Dale Worley) writes: >Most likely, the VT100 is not being sent the escape sequence that >turns on "alternate keypad mode", i.e., makes keypad keys send ESC >, rather than digits, etc. > If Emacs doesn't figure out early enough what >sort of terminal it is dealing with, it won't send the VT100 >initialization string. >You might try using send-string-to-terminal to send the "turn on >alternate keypad mode" escape sequence to the VT100, and see if this >clears up the problem. I tried this: (send-string-to-terminal "A") sends the A to the terminal window, not to the emacs window :-( grumble .... -- Georg Wittig GMD-Z1.BI P.O. Box 1240 D-5205 St. Augustin 1 (West Germany) email: wittig@gmdzi.uucp phone: (+49 2241) 14-2294 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" (Kris Kristofferson)