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From: jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: VT100 keys and auto-repeating
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 10:28:17 EDT
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>> In article <8708132014.AA28192@mitre-bedford.ARPA> lauri@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA ("Lauri A. Szklut") writes:
>> >
>> >When I'm using emacs on my VT220, I can keep keys like C-f pressed down 
>> >and the command will repeat.[...]  This doesn't work on my VT100 however.

>> We are running Gnu Emacs 18.47.1 and I cannot get the arrow keys to repeat.

>> We are running on Sun 3/50s.

Auto-repeat is strictly a local terminal function.  Some terminals
never do it, some have a separate key to do it (they are not "auto-"
repeaters at all, I guess).  Terminals that do it by key-lean may do
it only for the printing characters, or for all characters, or
whatever.  At any rate, you'll have to consult your terminal manual,
or terminal simulator software manual.  This has nothing whatever to
do with emacs, except that in some cases emacs may be able to enable
or disable the feature through initialization sequences.

/jr
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