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From: mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: key bindings for Micro-EMACS
Message-ID: <449@cimcor.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Aug-87 05:26:12 EDT
Article-I.D.: cimcor.449
Posted: Sat Aug 22 05:26:12 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 23-Aug-87 14:46:28 EDT
References: <292@mundoe.mu.oz> <7049@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Organization: Grenier & friends, Forest Lake, MN
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Summary: Emacs and curses

In article <7049@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
> I think it would be easier to recompile with the preferred bindings than
> to reload from dumps. Having a special version for each set of
> keybindings seems like a lot of work. Does each user have his own
> version, or are some arbitrary bindings made the systems default?
> Interesting idea for a single user system, though.


Not being familiar with BSD or various other flavors of UNIX except
V.2 perhaps I'm missing something. The terminfo library knows the
key sequences for each terminal, why not use curses which returns a
unique code for each arrow key, next page key, etc; like vi uses.
 
     -Mike
      ihnp4!meccts!cimcor!mike