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From: moconnor@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Mike O'Connor)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Function key problem in emacs on vaxstation xterm
Message-ID: <3244@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 90 14:47:02 GMT
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Organization: Oakland University, ACS/ACM/SBA
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In article: <129@gordon.UUCP>,
sra@gordon.UUCP (Sreedhar Annamalai) writes:

(problems and problems)
| previous screen. The PREV SCREEN key sends <esc>[5~ to
| emacs, but emacs seems to get only <esc>[5 when the key is pressed. The
| final tilde character is received by emacs only after another key
| press.
| 
| The above happens when I am in an xterm on an ULTRIX machine (vaxstation
| 2000 if you need me to be specific and if you need to pity), dlogin to a VMS
| node and run emacs on the VMS node.
| 
| The function keys are a problem only on emacs. 'edt' and 'wordperfect'
| work okay.

Sounds like one of two problems is at work:

1.  dlogin is eating your control characters.  I have quite a bit of 
    difficulty running EVE when using dlogin from an Ultrix to a VMS
    machine.

2.  Your emacs on VMS is not properly configured to take the PREV
    SCREEN and other keys.  (As far as I know, ESC V is the emacs
    "previous screen" command.)

What version of emacs are you running and what version of Ultrix are
you using?  I have been told that there are enhancements to Ultrix 4.0
that make dlogin behave a little better.

						...Mike



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