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From: ceb@ethz.UUCP (Charles Buckley)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: The definitive story on VT200/VT300 keys (tell me it)
Message-ID: <794@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 89 20:52:40 GMT
References: <90@csv.viccol.edu.au>
Organization: ETH Zuerich
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In-reply-to: timcc@csv.viccol.edu.au's message of 6 Mar 89 18:27:26 GMT

In article <90@csv.viccol.edu.au> timcc@csv.viccol.edu.au writes:

>   I've seen a few messages in comp.emacs lately regarding the setting up of
>   VT200-series terminal keys

ANSI terminals understand escape sequences of the form

ESC [ <arg1>;<arg2>;...;<argn><command-char>

It would be nice if someone had a bit of dispatch code which would
collect all of these arguments (they are optional) into a list, and
then call functions with these as arguments.  This would make all this
this customization a lot easier.  

I have seen hacks in which (honestly) ESC [ 70 ; 1 j (or something
like that) was explicitly coded into a key table (for home-down), and
that's definitely bogus.  I post, because this probably exists
somewhere, and it would be much appreciated if it could be
contributed.  Thanks in advance.

>   Don't tell me to read the Emacs manual,

(I agree, I despise people who do this.  Most of the major sinners in
this regard that I know are, however, Australians! :-})