dan (04/13/83)
I am a trying to use Warren's EMACS on PDP-11's. The copy I have has been hacked to use TERMCAP. Perhaps I'm just lazy, but I haven't figured out a couple of things... - How is it possible to get the arrow keys of a VT100 to function reasonably ? I know that VT100's in VT52 mode send <ESC><single char> for each arrow key, which could be mapped as <meta><single char> to the appropriate cursor motion command, in VT100/ANSI mode, arrows send <ESC><several chars>. - The version I have that has been hacked for TERMCAP is considerably more dumb about screen handling (than e.g. VI). Are there better versions available ? Has something been lost in the transition between Warren's terminal database and TERMCAP ? Thanks, Dan Ts'o ...decvax!cca!ima!n44a!dan
granvold@tymix.UUCP (Tom Granvold) (10/02/85)
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We have recently recieved GNU EMACS and have no local EMACS wizard to
bother with silly questions, so I though that I would bother the readers of
net.emacs :-) I would appreciate any help with the following questions.
1 - I can change option settings with the 'edit-options' command. But,
when I exit at the end of the day and come back the next morning the
options are back to their default values. How do I save the option
settings and recall them later?
2 - How can I recall macro definitions after I have exited and returned?
3 - Can options be changed and macros defined in the .emacs file? If so,
how?
4 - What are some of the more interesting, useful and easy things that
can be done in the .emacs file (other that changing key bindings)?
How are these done?
5 - Is it possible to have a file of EMACS commands that can be called
and executed in the middle of editing? How can I create such a
file?
In other words I would like to customize EMACS a bit more to my
liking, but I am having problems doing it. By the way we have version
16.56.1. I know a little LISP, not enough to write any real code, but
enough to be able to modify an example.
Thanks in advance,
Tom Granvold
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