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From: jerrells@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Joby Jerrells)
Subject: Re: ESC key on VT200 and VT300 terminals.
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.163335.15262@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 91 16:33:35 GMT
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In article <1095@keele.keele.ac.uk> pha21@seq1.keele.ac.uk (Braham Levy) writes:
>In article <9104172248.AA10611@cwns9.INS.CWRU.Edu>, ak104@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Robert Clark) writes:
>> 
>> 
>>   Does anyone know why DEC on VT200 and 300 terminals
>> mapped the ESC key to CTRL-3 and CTRL-3 to the ESC key?
>
>am i mistaken or doesn't the F11 key generate ESC ???
>
>braham
>
>email: brahamlevy@uk.ac.keele (or similar)
>
>mail-mail :				phone +44-782-621111x3943
>j braham levy
>UDSP Lab,
>Electrical Engineering Group,
>Dept. of Physics,
>University of Keele,
>Keele, Staffs, 
>UK.

To: ak104@cleveland.Freenet.Edu
Subject: Re: ESC key on VT200 and VT300 terminals.
Newsgroups: comp.terminals
In-Reply-To: <9104172248.AA10611@cwns9.INS.CWRU.Edu>
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington

In article <9104172248.AA10611@cwns9.INS.CWRU.Edu> you write:
>
>  Does anyone know why DEC on VT200 and 300 terminals
>mapped the ESC key to CTRL-3 and CTRL-3 to the ESC key?
>  I use the EMACS editor, which is a very popular editor
>for mainframe computers, and it requires the use of the
>ESC key. It's rather annoying to have to hit CTRL-3 for 
>the ESC key, particularly when there's no logical reason
>why it should be that way.
>  What's the deal here?
>
>					Bob Clark
>					SUNY at Albany

On the DEC vt200 series of terminals the escape key is mapped to F11.
These terminals have a set-up mode (The F3 key) that will allow you to
emulate a vt100 keyboard.  Then, whenever you need to use the escape
key in emacs, just press the F11 key as if it were the escape key.  I'm
not positive about the vt300 series, I'd have to check, but my guess is
that they work in a similar manner.  One other hint, make sure that you
define vt100 for emacs.
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