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From: mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Elle 4.1 and IBM keypad
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Date: 5 Nov 90 03:09:37 GMT
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"DAVID A. FENYES" <dfenyes%THESIS1.HSCH.UTEXAS.EDU@VM1.NoDak.EDU> writes

> Hello Minix Elle users,

> There have been some articles regarding using the arrow & keypad keys
> with Elle.  Remapping Esc-[ to extend is OK, but then you lose the
> resemblence to EMACS :-(

	Bingo, that's what I was talking about.

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> It is currently mapped to ESC-O, which of course is useless except from a
> VT100.  If you map this to ESC-[ in your ellepro.e, you will automatically
> have arrow-key functionality. 

 Both useless, and a little silly, since most students et. al. will be
using the console. Why not move it to ESC-[ in the distributed source.
That would seem to be much more useful.

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> Of course, the describe_key func. doesn't support these "hard" keys, and
> they  can't be remapped without recompiling, but for fixed name keys on
> the  keyboard, this is not distressing.

  It would be nice to be able to bind functions to the function keys. The
ones with names it's not to bad, since they would most likely stay the same.
The others though, it would be nice to alow binding user-defined keyboard
'macros' / 'functions' to them.

> By the way, in addition to fixing a number of display inconsistencies,
> I have just added an find-tag routine for e-tags, and am about to integrate
> regular exps.

  Sounds interesting, and usefull.

		mike.irons%lynx@helios.northeastern.edu