Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bu.edu!nntp-read!jbw From: jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: GNU emacs trashes vt100 arrow key sequences on VAX 6430 Message-ID: Date: 17 Mar 90 01:32:28 GMT References: Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Boston University Computer Science Department Lines: 21 In-reply-to: rich@ria.ccs.uwo.ca's message of 15 Mar 90 12:05:35 GMT In article rich@ria.ccs.uwo.ca (Rich Jones) writes: One suggestion that's been given to us is the following: > > GNU Emacs, when it reads an ESCAPE, does a read-with-timeout to > see if any characters are following it (so you can still use ESCAPE as > a command alone). I'll bet that the emacs code gets confused when > characters arrive so quickly. One of the things the network does to > the input is "BUNCH" characters into bursts (packets) which could > overrun EMACS. I think this is an EMACS bug. Well, I just checked in the source code for GNU Emacs (in src/sysdep.c and src/keyboard.c) and I could not find any evidence to support that assertion. GNU Emacs will allow you to use ESC alone if it is bound to a command in the local keymap, but is a prefix in the global keymap, however this does not seem to be related. -- Joe Wells jbw%bucsf.bu.edu@cs.bu.edu ...!harvard!bu-cs!bucsf!jbw