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From: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu (Daniel Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: ^S (search-forward) on vt100
Summary: MicroEMACS
Keywords: uEMACS 3.10
Message-ID: <7904@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 88 13:31:04 GMT
Reply-To: nwd@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Daniel Lawrence)
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <698@wsccs.UUCP> dharvey@wsccs.UUCP (David Harvey) writes:
>                               Any suggestions for a quick fix to make
>the cursor keys work with MicroEMACS 3.9e?  I don't mind using ^n,
>^p, ^f, and ^b but some other people using it do.  This is of course due
>to something in termcap (which I do not have source for) and the cursor
>keys work normally on other machines such as the Amiga and IBM.  I am
>standardizing on this editor because it works well in cramped quarters.
>
>
>dharvey@wsccs

Version 3.10, due out to BETA testers late this month, and in general
release about 4 weeks after that has support for TERMCAP reading of the
function and cursor keys.  Not a quick fix.  Adding the needed source
to 3.9e is not hard, but probably is not worth the effort to try
and patch the binary.

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