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From: mark@cogent.UUCP (Captain Neptune)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: key bindings for Micro-EMACS
Message-ID: <262@cogent.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 13:40:36 EDT
Article-I.D.: cogent.262
Posted: Tue Aug 25 13:40:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 27-Aug-87 02:30:51 EDT
References: <449@cimcor.UUCP> <295@mundoe.mu.oz>
Reply-To: mark@cogent.UUCP (Mark Steven Jeghers)
Organization: Cogent Software Solutions, Stockton, CA
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In article <295@mundoe.mu.oz> glf@mundoe.mu.oz (Giuseppe Fiusco) writes:
>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.

Sorry, I see this in a different light:

There is a simple reason why one *could* use 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, thus employing LOTS of #ifdef structures so that it
can run on lots of systems (not just UNIX).  By putting the terminal
definition stuff in the appropriate #ifdef's, the terminal description
package *would* allow for a consistant, usable implementation across the
different systems. 
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