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- From: pd@x.co.uk (Paul Davey)
- Newsgroups: comp.emacs
- Subject: Re: setting up function key for X windows Gnu emacs?
- Message-ID: <PD.92Sep4121057@herts.x.co.uk>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 12:10:57 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.222158.7993@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz>
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- Sender: paul@x.co.uk (Paul Davey)
- Organization: IXI Ltd.
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- In-Reply-To: alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com's message of 2 Sep 92 10:47:28 GMT
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- >>>>> On 2 Sep 92 10:47:28 GMT, alanb@sdl.mdcbbs.com (Alan Braggins) said:
-
- Alan> But X is supposed to remove/hide machine dependencies...
-
- Alan> I modified emacs to have X as a terminal type of its own, rather than remap
- Alan> X keys to vt100 or Suntool or HP term etc. - works much better when using it
- Alan> on assorted platforms (in particular, when emacs is running on different
- Alan> machine type from keyboard).
-
- What would be useful would be a display (type) dependant mapping, so
- that you can have different bindings for function keys on different
- displays.
-
- Then bindings could be specified in a directory of .el files called
- lisp/display (cf lisp/term).
-
- We might have
-
- ncd.el
- sunk4.el
- sunk3.el
- hp.el
- etc.
-
- A local database could map display name to display type.
-
- Maybe V19 has something like this?
-
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