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From: wohler@sri-spam.ARPA (Bill Wohler)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: gnu-emacs on Suns
Message-ID: <7180@sri-spam.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 18-Sep-86 16:19:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 18 16:19:44 1986
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Reply-To: wohler@sri-spam.UUCP (Bill Wohler)
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park
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Keywords: sun, meta-keys, sun terminal driver, goodstuff()

instead of modifying suntools to utilize the meta-keys you
could also add a sun-specific terminal driver for gnuemacs
which uses the "left" and "right" keys as meta-keys, gives
you cursor, menu, and mouse control, uses sun's graphics to
display the characters (makes scrolling much faster).

this code was written by david l. kashtan at SRI's ai center
and has been working well for us for half a year now.  i
heard rumors that this code should be appearing in version
18 of gnuemacs, but perhaps rms can help us out there.

i assume that the code has the same copyright requirements
as rms' code, but i might stand to be corrected.

i have a tar file of the original code, but we have modified
it to make use of the menuing and character selection
abilities, and made a few enhancements.  i could make a tar
file of the enhancements as well.  the code's size stands a
hair under 200k bytes.  if there is enough interest in this
code, i'll try to make it available for ftp or uucp
transfer.

questions, requests to wohler@sri-spam.arpa.

						--bw