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From: glf@mundoe.mu.oz (Giuseppe Fiusco)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: key bindings for Micro-EMACS
Message-ID: <295@mundoe.mu.oz>
Date: Sun, 23-Aug-87 23:14:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: mundoe.295
Posted: Sun Aug 23 23:14:30 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 25-Aug-87 01:41:59 EDT
References: <449@cimcor.UUCP>
Organization: Mathematics, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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in article <449@cimcor.UUCP>, mike@cimcor.UUCP (Michael Grenier) says:
> .................................. 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.

There was a very simple reason for not using the terminal description
library routines to do the key-bindings. If you look carefully at the
source for MicroEMACS you will see that it is used on a large 
number of different systems (not just UNIX) so using the terminal
description package would not allow for a consistant, usable implementation
across the different systems.

Giuseppe Fiusco

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