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From: tech@auvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: when using termcap, get it right!
Message-ID: <189@auvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 17:32:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: auvax.189
Posted: Mon Jun 15 17:32:36 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 17-Jun-87 01:52:22 EDT
References: <1149@carthage.swatsun.UUCP> <8601@tekecs.TEK.COM> <6828@mimsy.UUCP> <1166@osiris.UUCP>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
Lines: 25
Keywords: termcap, curses
Xref: utgpu comp.sources.d:785 comp.emacs:1021
Summary: but some of us don't like function keys

In article <1166@osiris.UUCP>, jdia@osiris.UUCP (Josh Diamond) writes:
> In article <1335@super.upenn.edu.upenn.edu>, catone@dsl.cis.upenn.edu (Tony Catone) writes:
> > 
> > The problem we have with this is that our users fall in love with
> > the VT100 keyboard for editors like EDT and TPU, and then complain
...
>     The "IDEAL" solution to this problem would be to make emacs
> understand pf-keys better.  Microemacs is easily kludged to do this.
> Isn't it about time this happened?

The problem for me is that to use function keys I have to take my hands off
the keyboard and reach for the function keys.  Worse, I have to take my
eyes off the screen and look at my hands.

On VMS I use the TPU based LSEDIT where I have mapped the more used function
keys to emacs like control chars.

I have to conclude that Function Key editors were not invented by typists.

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