Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!ditmela!yarra!melba!gnb From: gnb@bby.oz (Gregory N. Bond) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Query on sun.el Message-ID: Date: 9 Mar 89 06:29:31 GMT Sender: gnb@melba.bby.oz Distribution: all Lines: 16 In-reply-to: ben@ulrich.mth.msu.edu's message of 7 Mar 89 19:39:13 GMT [ re sun-esc-bracket in term/sun.el being nil ] Now it seems to me that the code inside the if can never get executed, since sun-esc-bracket is always set to nil when this point is reached. Is there something I'm missing here? Yep. Your private .emacs file is interpreted first, before the term/sun.el file. So if you have a line like (setq sun-esc-bracket t) in your .emacs, then all the right things happen and you get full sun arrow and function keys. Lovely! -- Gregory Bond (gnb@melba.bby.oz), Burdett, Buckeridge & Young Ltd., Melbourne "[It] is not a phrase which has been coined by God. It was written by kre (known to mere mortals as Robert Elz), who is only a demi-god. Therefore, do not treat his words as gospel, they are merely truth." - djk@munnari