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From: dfenyes@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu (DAVID A. FENYES)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: elle
Message-ID: <34708@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 90 23:12:58 GMT
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Hello, Mike,

You write

> are. Elle is supposed to Look Like Emacs, not Mined which is the .ellepro
> that gives you the arrow keys. What I was proposing (and as usual I should have
> made myself clearer) was to improve the arrow handling so as to be able to use
> them in the base system (the one that runs as close to 'real' emacs as it can)
> or a way add arrow (and the extended editing keys, like on my VT220) without
> having to fiddle with the .ellepro and it's meta chracter. I don't remember
> the exact contents of the .ellepro file, but there is something in it that
> fiddles with the ESC char telling elle that the ESC char means an esc-sequence
> is about to show up.

There is a function called "VT-100 Button Hack", or something similar, that
will take an A,B,C, or D and perform the appropriate movement.  If you
bind this to E-[ in ellepro.e & recompile (because the func may be ommitted
in your config), the arrow keys will work.  In porting Elle to Coherent,
I added support for the whole keypad & function keys in this function.
You can get the Coherent version for inspection from piggy.ucsb.edu
(128.111.72.50) in /pub/coherent/sources/Elle41C.zip.  I believe it should
compile fine on MINIX still.

So you only have to alter defprf.e at most, if you wand arrows.


Good Luck,

David.

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David Fenyes                                  dfenyes@thesis1.hsch.utexas.edu
University of Texas Medical School            Houston, Texas
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