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From: yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil)
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Subject: Re: MS-Kermit and keymapping for gemacs?
Summary: Is this guy dumb?
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Message-ID: <1991Jun7.174226.16770@cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 7 Jun 91 17:42:26 GMT
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In article <1991Jun6.213242.18546@cs.ubc.ca> yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Joseph Gil) writes:
>
>Suppose that one has
> ...
> [Description of standard UNIX/PC-Kermit/Gemacs combo omitted.]
> ...
>the problem is how to define a decent keymapping scheme:
>including a ONE key (e.g., F1, Ctrl-Left, PgUp, Alt-A) for
>all major editing  tasks.
>
> ....
>
Reading the above message, I really had the urge of using all nasty
words in Oxford dictionary to flame this guy. However, I refrain from
doing so, because I know what such flamage might do to my shattered self
confidence ;-)

Well, there is an Ms-Kermit INI file (by Joel Spolsky and David
MacKenzie) defining  all Alt-keys as Meta-keys: that is Alt-a is 
send as ESC a. This file is available from simtel, wuarchive and
perhaps from other places.

Now the question is: why didn't I think of it?

Well, I was looking for something far more reached- 
Instead of equipping the kermit user with a better terminal to
emacs, make emacs look to the kermit user just like any ``decent''
PC editor.

Some ideas in this direction:
	a) Make ESC in emacs work like a PC ESC normal function (that
		is equivalent to EMACS ^G character)
	b) Show the marked block (or a marked block) in emacs using
	   a different attribute (say- reverse video).
	c) Use PC special line drawing chars in emacs to draw
       window boundaries.

Thanks

	Yossi