[comp.emacs] How to send real ESC character

chien@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Greg Chien) (11/17/89)

I need to send the non-printable ESC character from gnu lisp to
ascii terminals, but the interpreter always translate "\e" into
printable "^[".  Is there any way to bypass it?

Thanks in advance,

Greg Chien
Institute of Design
Illinois Institute of Technology

IDCHIEN@IITVAX.BITNET

montnaro@crdgw1.UUCP (Skip Montanaro) (11/17/89)

Check out (send-string-to-terminal). Something like

	(send-string-to-terminal "\e[7m")

should put a vt100 compatible in standout mode. It works for me anyway.

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jka@hpfcso.HP.COM (Jay Adams) (11/18/89)

Look at send-string-to-terminal.  I think that is what you want.

- Jay

chari@nueces.cactus.org (Chris Whatley) (11/18/89)

jka@hpfcso.UUCP (Jay Adams) writes:

>Look at send-string-to-terminal.  I think that is what you want.

My emacs doesn't have that. Is it possibly local to your system?

Chris

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chari@nueces.UUCP (Chris Whatley) (11/18/89)

jka@hpfcso.UUCP (Jay Adams) writes:

>Look at send-string-to-terminal.  I think that is what you want.

My emacs doesn't have that. Is it possibly local to your system?

Chris

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