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obnoxious behavior under X

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From: "David Gudeman"
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 23:26
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	  /* 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.
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From: gudeman@CS.ARIZONA.EDU ("David Gudeman")
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Subject: obnoxious behavior under X
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Date: 7 Sep 90 23:26:10 GMT
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