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Subject: Key mappings under 4Sight 1.0
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Date: 6 Feb 90 10:28:00 GMT
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On 5-feb, Jeremy Webber writes about remapping keys under wsh in
order to run GNU emacs happily.

Is this the best way ? Remapping at that level is bound to confuse
anything else running under the wsh. Perhaps it would be better to
remap keys in you .emacs file, so for example

  (global-set-key "\b" 'delete-backward-char)
Note that you then have to bind the help functions to another key
of your choice. The above line for remapping is described in the
file called PROBLEMS in the top level directory in the emacs
distribution.

I also think that, for happy editing, it is more important to
define the arrow keys and then the page up/down and so on. Aside
from defining an escape-key-map, I also found it necessary to put
an (enable-arrow-keys) in the .emacs file.
Finally, you should make this stuff dependent on the type of
terminal being used, so people can still come in to the iris with
other terminal types and be able to edit properly.

In the lisp/term subdirectory, there are several sophisticated
examples for this kind of thing.

-Andrew Torda     (bitnet)   torda@hgrrug52