davis@yoda.byu.edu (08/02/89)
We have just installed emacs on one of our systems and I have not been able to figure out how to make the function keys (arrow keys etc) for a vt200 terminal active. I have tried loading keypad.el and vt200.el but it still doesn't work. Can anybody help a beginner? Phillip Davis davis@adam.byu.edu Brigham Young Univ.
m1jap04@fed.frb.gov (Jong Park) (08/26/89)
> We have just installed emacs on one of our systems and I have not > been able to figure out how to make the function keys (arrow keys etc) > for a vt200 terminal active. I have tried loading keypad.el and vt200.el > but it still doesn't work. Can anybody help a beginner? A year ago we have accomplished the GNU Emacs function key mappings for HDS terminals (in vt220 emulation) and for Sun workstations using both unshifted and shifted function keys. We have configured the function keys in such a way that the majority of the users at our organization use Emacs without ever learning Control key maps or M-x. Our system also allows the users to execute their applications (like Splus, Mathematica, Speakez, fame, SAS, or most other unix commands) through Emacs Shell buffers -- permitting the users to run multiple programs and, for example, copy the results of one program to be input into another or to a memorandum or mail. To some of us who are stuck with HDS terminals rather than Suns, our Emacs system turned out to be a life-saver. Lately we are trying to allow novice users to run their applications through a menu system within Emacs. Since there have been some interests in our system expressed on the net, we have been working to make it available to the net. Making it free of our own idiosyncracies and providing at least a minimal amount of documentation, however, proved to take more time than we thought initially, so we ask for your patience. Jong Park Federal Reserve Board Washington, DC 20551 uucp: uunet!fed!m1jap04 internet: m1jap04@fed.frb.gov Jong Park Federal Reserve Board Washington, DC 20551 uucp: uunet!fed!m1jap04 internet: m1jap04@fed.frb.gov