mapping the arrow keys in xterm

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From: Alex D. Nghiem
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 20:27

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People:

I'm using a version of xterm which does not understand the arrow keys.  I tried  
the following in my ~/.emacs file:

(define-key global-map "^[[A" 'previous-line)

I get the following message everytime I use eval-current-buffer:

Key sequence ^[[A uses invalid prefix characters.

Can anyone shed some light on this for me?  Please e-mail me directly, since I  
don't read this forum very often.


Thanks in advance,


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