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From: dps@omssw2.UUCP (Dave Schneider)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: While we're blaming the terminal...
Message-ID: <533@omssw2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 5-Dec-86 03:05:55 EST
Article-I.D.: omssw2.533
Posted: Fri Dec  5 03:05:55 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Dec-86 11:42:47 EST
References: <8612020023.AA05566@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Intel Corp., OMS Div., Systems Group, Hillsboro, OR
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> ...  Your terminal or terminal emulator could have a mode in
> which it translates keyboard entry of Control-S and Control-Q into
> something else - either multi-character escape sequences or other
> control characters....There are probably existing ibmpc
> terminal emulator programs with keystroke macros powerful enough ...

I would like to add a complaint about terminal manufacturers who set up the
arrow  keys  to  send  single character control codes.  Invariably, it will
cause a distortion somewhere.  We ran into this problem  with  VI  when  we
first  started  using  TVI  914's, and when I wanted to use arrow keys with
emacs, I had to move a half-dozen functions (imagine:  arrows that send  ^V
(c. down) and ^L (c. left?)).

The Wyse 50 and Wyse 60 have the same problem, but at least on the Wyse  60
you  can reprogram the arrow keys, and not have to do a lot of translations
when you're in someone else's office.  It's a lot easier to  only  have  to
step  back  and think "next line...oh, that's ^N" and not have to say "next
line...oh, that's ^V...oh, my .emacsrc isn't running here, what's the  ori-
ginal next line...oh, that's ^N, which I normally use for next-page...."

Does anyone know why Televideo and Wyse made this  contribution  to  brain-
damage?

P.S.  RMS should note that Wyse 50's and 60's don't behave nicely on ^space
-- the most convenient keystroke built in is ^`, though it would be easy to
set up a function key, and there are 32 possible function keys.

                                        Dave
                                        "dpsatomssw2"
                                        Friday, 12.5