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From: wiles@hercules.uucp (Dale Wiles)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: How are arrow keys set up?
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.160357.6232@planck.uucp>
Date: 26 Oct 89 16:03:57 GMT
References: <1918@dover.sps.mot.com>
Reply-To: wiles@hercules.UUCP (Dale Wiles)
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In article <1918@dover.sps.mot.com> cowan@soleil.sps.mot.com () writes:
>
> [Stuff about mapping arrow keys.]
>
>As an example, I've tried the mapping the up arrow key (^[[A) to be
>previous-line in my .emacs file:

> (define-key global-map "\e[A" 'previous-line)
This is the proper syntax.

However, you're doing your mapping wrong. One way to map function keys is
to map the prefix key (in your case \e[) to a function map (CSI-map
probably), and then may the "A" to previous-line in CSI-map.

The best way to figure this out is to look at the file
"lisp/term/vt100.el" in your emacs directory. This is the program that
maps all the vt100 keys. It should get you going in the right direction.

You also might want to try M-x enable-arrow-keys, just to see what
happens. (It *probably* wont kill you :-)

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