Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!ira.uka.de!fauern!tub!coma!bsp09 From: bsp09@eidfjord.cs.tu-berlin.de (Uebung bsp) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Help - binding on a vt in uEMACS Message-ID: Date: 29 Jun 90 22:18:49 GMT References: <6400.2689ed27@vax1.tcd.ie> Sender: news@coma.UUCP Organization: Technical University of Berlin Lines: 33 In-reply-to: pkilllea@vax1.tcd.ie's message of 28 Jun 90 11:42:31 GMT In article <6400.2689ed27@vax1.tcd.ie> pkilllea@vax1.tcd.ie writes: > I've just begun using microEMACS 3.7 on a vt320 terminal. > I'm having trouble getting any key mapped as - all of the functions > and application-keypad keys give [aborted] or [key not bound]. Well, I just know MicroEmacs 3.9 and vt220 - not the same, but similar, I think. MicroEmacs can process only escape sequences with one character after the ESC, or with one character after ESC [ (so is my experience). The latter are sent by the cursor keys of the mini keypad (ESC[A, ESC[B, etc.). All other function keys send sequences like ESC[~blablabla and worse :-) , with more than one character after ESC[ . On the vt220s that I know (original DEC) there is no *real* ESC key, only one labeled ESC (F11 or one of these), but it sends ESC[~blablabla. The only ways to get a *real* *only* ESC character are 1.) to press CTRL-3 (german keyboard, may be different on others) and 2.) press CTRL-[ (*not* possible on german keyboard :-( ). It looks like Dec hasn't designed the vt?20s for use with MicroEmacs. (EVE/TPU on VMS is great... and in two or so weeks I'll get a REAL (GNU) Emacs! But MicroEmacs *is* good - I had the same 3.9 on Apollo SR 10.2, SunOS 4.0.3, MSDOS 3.3, Nixdorf SysV3.2, and VMS 5.3!) Greetings, Juergen -- ----------------- Juergen Nickelsen nickelsen@mikroperipherik.e-technik.tu-berlin.dbp.de