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From: bk7295@leah.Albany.Edu (Brian A. Kell)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Binding VT100 keypad keys with GNU Emacs .emacs
Message-ID: <3516@leah.Albany.Edu>
Date: 11 Aug 90 14:37:21 GMT
References: <2460@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Organization: The University at Albany, Computer Services Center
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In article <2460@vela.acs.oakland.edu>, moconnor@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Mike O'Connor) writes:
> I am having problems binding VT100 keypad keys with .emacs files.
> 
> The VT100 keypad keys (M-O*, according to describe-key) will bind 
> properly *after* loading up emacs, but will not bind with the 
> global-set-key statements used in the .emacs initialization file.  
> No other keys have problems binding with the global-set-key statements
> in the .emacs used.  Terminal incompatibility has been ruled out -- 


In the GNUemacs 18.55 distribution there are libraries for various terminal
types, including the vt100 (see the file dist-18.55/lisp/term/vt100.el)
This library will automatically be loaded if your environment variable
TERM is set to vt100 (or vt100-*).  This is described in the manual
under `Terminal-Specific Initialization' in the section about 
`The Init File: .emacs'.  It works for me using a name-brand DEC vt320
operating in vt100 mode...

Brian Kell
SUNY/Albany Department of Computer Science
brian@isadora.albany.edu