ss@wivax.UUCP (08/27/84)
Hi guys,
I have just put up UniPress EMACS 1.2 on our VMS machine (I
know, I know...)
Anyway, due to the extraordinary cost, I just bought the
binary version. Now, I am an old #85 version on unix, so I
sort-of-know what I am talking about.
Anyway, I have moved over my
vt100-using-alternate-keypad-mode .ml file, and I addapted
it to the same form that unipress used for it's vt100 mode.
And low and behold, it barely works. It seems that
whenever something shows up on the status line or I do an
<ESC>x type command, emacs the terminal loses the alternate
keypad mode. This is quite annoying. Are there any other
VMS-emacs users out there who have/havenot noticed that
behavior? And did they fix it?
Thanks, people.
Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies
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(617)649-9731ss@wivax.UUCP (Sid Shapiro) (09/06/84)
Hi again! (First, my original article said I just put up UniPress VMS emacs 1.2. What I really meant was release 1.2 which is version 1b) I have had 3 responses, none of whom had the answer - well one sort of did, but I'll get to that in a minute. The answer is that I don't know for sure why the keypad looses its alternacity, but if I remove the rename-macros and defuns of all the return-to-monitor, exit, pause functions, the keypad does not lose. Hmmm. The real point I want to make here is that I have received 2 (count 'em) calls from UniPress. They read this news group and they DO RESPOND!! (I had found my workaround before the first call, so the content of the call was much less interesting to me than the fact that they called at all.) I have heard a lot of nasty things said about UniPress and their support. Well, they are at least listening and doing the good-mannerly thing of calling people who report problems. TTFN, / Sid /