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- From: dee@skipper.physics.sunysb.edu (James Dee)
- Subject: emacs
- Message-ID: <9211051445.AA00839@skipper.physics.sunysb.edu>
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- Organization: Gatewayed from the GNU Project mailing list help-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 04:45:43 GMT
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- Hi there,
-
- I am running GNU Emacs 18.58 on an SGI Iris 4D. Many of my users are
- familiar with the VAX editor edt, which emulation is of course built in
- to emacs. Proper emulation of edt requires use of the keypad, so keys
- have to be rebound. I have a nice vt100 X resource file that binds
- XTerm keypad keys to the proper DEC sequences, so if emacs is run with
- the -nw qualifier in one of these windows, everything works great.
-
- Unfortunately, if I run emacs without the -nw qualifier and open another
- window, it uses xwsh instead of xterm, so I don't have the proper key
- bindings. Moreover, I don't believe it's actually possible to bind the
- keypad in xwsh, only certain function keys.
-
- What I would like to do is somehow tell emacs to use xterm instead of
- xwsh when it brings up its window. Then everything will be fine. Is
- there a LISP variable that can be set to change this (perhaps even an
- environment variable or an X resource), or will I have to recompile?
-
- Thanks a lot.
-
- --Jimmy Dee
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