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From: michael@pbinfo.UUCP (Michael Schmidt)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: key bindings for Micro-EMACS
Message-ID: <108@corona.pb>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 04:09:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: corona.108
Posted: Tue Aug 25 04:09:20 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Aug-87 06:04:59 EDT
References: <449@cimcor.UUCP> <295@mundoe.mu.oz>
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, FB17/Informatik
Lines: 28
Keywords: MicroGnu GNU
Summary: arrow keys are possible

Recently glf@mundoe.mu.oz (Giuseppe Fiusco) wrote:
  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.
  
I really don't understand, what you're trying to say.

I think, the real reason is, that for example the ansi cursor
keys are starting with '\E[' and that is bound to a function in
most emacses. GNU has the possibility to set it in the terminal
dependent startup file and MicroGnuEmacs has a compile time
option to include code to read the keys from terminfo/cap and it
both works fine.

     Michael Schmidt
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