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From: rustcat@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Vallury Prabhakar)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: vt-100 function keys and GNU Emacs
Message-ID: <2015@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 28 Jan 88 10:36:43 GMT
References: <4228@utai.UUCP>
Reply-To: rustcat@russell.UUCP (Vallury Prabhakar)
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In article <4228@utai.UUCP> eric@ai.toronto.edu (Eric Yu) writes:
+->  
+->  On the VT-100, the cursor (arrow) keys produce   ESC [   followed by 
+->  one of  A, B, C, or D.
+->  
+->  The shifted PF keys produce    ESC O    and  A, B, C, or D.
+->  
+->  Gosling Emacs seems to respect this convention.
+->  But in GNU Emacs, both sets of keys produce the  ESC O  prefix,
+->  to the effect that those keys are no longer distinguishable.
+->  

I don't know if this helps, but one of the problems I had when using my
PC as a vt100 emulator for a Unix mainframe was:

	I tried binding the keys on the numeric keypad to some obvious
	cursor functions.  It didn't work at first.  Well, not completely.
	For example, the up-arrow would move the cursor to the previous line,
	BUT along with that some other characters would get inserted.
	I fixed this problem, by using the NUM-LOCK key in conjunction with
	the numeric keypad.  That works fine.

	^[Ox	= NUM-LOCK + UP-ARROW
	^[[A	= UP-ARROW (sans NUM-LOCK)   => The A would get inserted.


		
						-- Vallury Prabhakar

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