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From: gs26@prism.gatech.EDU (Glenn R. Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: GNU emacs 18.56
Message-ID: <20259@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 91 19:13:28 GMT
References: <1991Jan23.210514.500@nrcnet0.nrc.ca>
Reply-To: glenns@eas.gatech.edu
Organization: Dead Poets Society
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In <1991Jan23.210514.500@nrcnet0.nrc.ca> ng@cfd.di.nrc.ca (Kai S. Ng) writes:

>I've installed GNU emacs 18.56 on a RS6000/530 running AIX 3.1 (3002).
>It works well on the X11 environment (compiled with HAVE_X_WINDOWS, X11,
>HAVE_X_MENU).

This I gotta have.... Big Blue's 18.54 port doesn't do X... :(

>However, the DEL key does not function when you are not using X. It seems
>DEL is mapped to "ESC [ P" for some reason. Has anybody encountered the same
>problem?

Under X, ^? (DEL) is sent with C-Backspace (control-backspace) by default.
IBM has an hft.el in their Emacs lisp/term directory (which I linked to
aixterm.el) which maps all the keys to the Right Things, including 
insert, delete, home, end, arrow keys, the whole nine yards....
You Want It, You Got It.... 

-- Glenn R. Stone
glenns@eas.gatech.edu