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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Jove (emacs?) for DEC system using bsd
Summary: a pessimist's solution
Keywords: emacs,keyboard,key-binding
Message-ID: <533@talos.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 89 12:16:19 GMT
References: <926@neptune.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
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Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA
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In article <926@neptune.AMD.COM> kevin@neptune.AMD.COM (Kevin Tomasek) writes:
 > I am having trouble binding the up and down line fucntions to the up and
 > down arrow keys of my vt220 keyboard.  The system is a DEC running 4.3
 > (?) bsd.

I used to battle to make the arrow keys work on the terminals that I
used.  Several terminals types later I gave up and considered the lesson
learned.  Save yourself some grief and get used to using C-n and C-p.
In fact avoid function keys altogether.  You might even want to consider
not using the ESC key either (type C-[ instead).  Considering where ESC
is on a vt200 you'll probably be better off.

kyle jones   <kjones@talos.UUCP>   ...!uunet!talos!kjones
"The only good cat is a stir-fried cat." -- Alf