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- From: dougm@cns.caltech.edu (Doug McNaught)
- Subject: vt220/320 lossage
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:44:00 GMT
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- Hi,
- I'm using 18.51.9 (yeah, it's old but it came with the system) on a
- DECstation 5000. Usually I use X and everything's hunky-dory, but
- there do occur times when I have to use one of the large number of VT
- terminals around the lab. When I look at term/vt200.el (which also
- serves as a term file for 220/300/320) it looks like things are set up
- nicely to use the various function keys (not only the keypad but the
- Fn keys and the Find, Select etc) in the canonical way. They don't
- work, and the thing that really bugs me is that F11, which according
- to the elisp file should act like <esc>, doesn't. So, I either have to
- use \C-[, which takes two hands, or put the terminal into vt100 mode
- (where F11 sends a real <esc>) and live with the lossage when I have a
- VMS session and an Ultrix at the same time (which I do a lot). I've
- looked at the elisp, fooled with quoted-insert, compared the results
- to the actual keymap loaded by the elisp file, and can see no reason
- why this isn't working. So after the rambling description, here are my
- questions:
-
- 1) Is this a known problem with emacs of this vintage?
-
- 2) Is someone using a later version and vt320 with working function keys?
-
- 3) Where would I start trying to find out what's wrong?
-
- I'd really like to get a "yes" to number 2, since then I can maybe
- persuade my boss to let me install lucid or at least 18.58... Thanks
- for any help.
-
- -doug
-
- --
- Doug McNaught |"Sadder still to watch it die/ Then never to have
- dougm@cns.caltech.edu | known it/ For you, the blind who once could see/
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