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In article <9212302142.AA17915@life.ai.mit.edu> a.0013@vcc3.vcc.bc.CA (Jim Chivas  Vancouver Community College) writes:
>; In the following .emacs file I want to be placed into text-mode by default
>; and have my function key # 2 on my televideo terminal become the
>; scroll-up function.
>;
>; When I enter emacs I am still in default lisp mode and
>; when I hit my F2 key I get the letter A placed onto my screen, but no
>; scrollup.
>;
>; I am assuming that I don't have to write some complex function
>; definition to get my function keys to work. Most of the examples I have seen,
>; both in the FAQ and other books like GNU Emacs from O'Reilly & Assiciates
>; seem to state that I can do what I want using the global-set-key features.
>; The global-unset-key statements do work, though.
>;

Try this:

;; F2 incorporates new mail, loading mh if necessary.
;;
(define-key global-map (x-keysym-to-keystrokes "F2")
  'warp-to-mbox-and-inc)   

It works well, and you don't need cryptic codes. 



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