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Re: GNU Emacs and the use of Left Function keys on the SUN

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From: Deven T. Corzine
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 18:28
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deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) said:

Deven> but to enter the sequence, type the opening quote, C-q (or if
Deven> flow control is a problem, use "M-x quoted-insert" if you must)
Deven> then type the function key itself and the closing quote.

On 27 Feb 90 21:24:13 GMT, jac@muslix.llnl.gov (James Crotinger) said:

James> Just tried this. The escape sequence does get inserted into the
James> file. I then tried to evaluate the command, and emacs complains
James> that I'm using an invalid prefix key.

That means that you have some function assigned to a sequence which is
part of that full sequence.  In this case, almost certainly the
culprit is ESC [ -- so include (global-unset-key "\e[") before you try
the global-set-key's...

Deven
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From: deven@rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine)
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs and the use of Left Function keys on the SUN
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