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From: pedz@smu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Arrow Key Problems - (nf)
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Date: Wed, 22-Aug-84 22:13:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 22 22:13:00 1984
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smu!pedz    Aug 22 21:13:00 1984

I will post this since I have been asked this many times at our
site so I feel that there may be a general use for it.

The basic reason that the arrow keys do not work is that emacs
does not use that part of termcap.  If you want an arrow key (or
a special funtion key) to perform some function within emacs,
then simply bind those keystrokes to a function.  A better
method which works on some terminals is to configure the
terminal to send the proper codes that emacs wants to see.

The function inside emacs you need to use is bind-to-key if the
key sequence is suitable for it.  If it is not, then you must
define keymaps and bind the keys to keymaps.  The best example
of this is the pseudo-vi mode that is done in the manual.
(Hint, I have actually used the bind-to-key function on key
sequences that did not start with ESC or ^X but I do not know if
this will continue to work or not.)

Perry
convex!smu!pedz