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- From: adam@dadhb1.ti.com (Adam Hudd)
- Subject: Re: Help! Arrow keys!
- In-Reply-To: qarl@eclop.wustl.edu's message of Tue, 8 Sep 1992 16:46:19 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 22:23:46 GMT
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- Karl Stiefvater writes:
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- Karl> OKee. From the FAQ, I get the jist of the "ESC [ A" arrow key
- Karl> problem.
-
- Karl> Seems kinda silly to me. It seems that Emacs makes some pretty
- Karl> troublesome key binding decisions... ^S, ^H, ESC[... Seems like a Bad
- Karl> Thing.
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- Karl> ANYWAY. I want to know how I can fix my arrow key problem at my site.
- Karl> The FAQ recommends that I modify either my "default.el" file, or my
- Karl> "term/xterm.el" file, or something. However, putting
- Karl> (enable-arrow-keys) in either of these files seems to have NO effect.
- Karl> Emacs doesn't even seem to look at these files.
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- Karl, try the following in your .emacs file:
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- (global-unset-key "\e[") ;; disable default binding of M-[
- ;; This allows for Sun arrow keys to be bound
- (global-set-key "\M-[A" 'forward-char) ;; etc...
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