Article View: gnu.emacs.bug
Article #99437obnoxious behavior under X
From: "David Gudeman"
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 23:26
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 23:26
16 lines
1273 bytes
1273 bytes
In version 18.55 line 1096, beginning /* Nasty fix for arrow keys */ is code to catch arrow keystrokes and turns them into ^B, ^N, etc. Why should X terminals have special behavior for arrows? All other terminals require an appropriate term/???.el file for this. There are a lot of people (like me) who use arrow keys for moving around and have ^B, ^N etc bound to other useful functions. This "fix" screws things up. It's just one more unnecessary headache to overcome when moving to a new system. I can probably get around this by making a keyboard mapping file, but that's just one more thing to cause problems when I move to yet another system.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<9009072326.AA14765@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!CS.ARIZONA.EDU!gudemanShow Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: fb2f1,b8457fbd9be20e3a,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidfb2f1,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-09-07 19:17:20 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!CS.ARIZONA.EDU!gudeman
From: gudeman@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("David Gudeman")
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: obnoxious behavior under X
Message-ID: <9009072326.AA14765@megaron.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 7 Sep 90 23:26:10 GMT
Sender: daemon@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu
Distribution: gnu
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Lines: 16
Posted: Sat Sep 8 00:26:10 1990