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From: brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: key bindings for Micro-EMACS
Message-ID: <1000@wjvax.wjvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 14:25:21 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 14:25:21 1987
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In article <292@mundoe.mu.oz> glf@mundoe.mu.oz (Giuseppe Fiusco) writes:
>Every so often there is some discusion about how to make MicroEMACS
>recognise a certein key sequence eg. the directional keys on a VT100.
>
>When MicroEMACS is started up the first thing it does is read a startup
>file that contains information regarding how particular functions are
>bound to a particular series of key-strokes. It uses something like the
>following sequence :
>
>[ Command		Function		Key Strokes ]

I was faced with the same problem, but I addressed it in a slightly-different
manner, which I believe is more consistent with original usage.  I
defined a new function 'define-key`, which let one name a character
sequence.  After that, that name became a function-key, which could be bound
to a function.  With this method, the desired define-key commands can be put
in the MicroEMACS startup script, and then the resulting function keys can
be bound to the desired functions.  No additional function key table is
necessary.

In addition, I modified the termcap driver automatically to generate arrow
key function keys (I used FN-LEFT,FN-RIGHT,FN-UP,FN-DOWN) and bind the
respective functions to them.  That is very handy.

Unfortunately, I cannot post diffs, because I made lots of other modifications
as part of the same effort, and I was working on an old version anyhow
(3.7i).  The changes outlined above aren't very hard, however.

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Brett Galloway
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