[comp.emacs] EDT emulation broken in 18.52

rik@june.cs.washington.edu (Rik Littlefield) (11/22/88)

In GNU Emacs version 18.52, at least, the mode that emulates VMS EDT seems
to be broken.  After doing M-x edt-emulation-on, all of the single-key
commands work OK, as do all of the GOLD-x commands where x comes in as a
single ASCII character.  What doesn't work is GOLD-y where y is an escape
sequence.  E.g., keypad "5" comes in as ESC-O-u.  Keypad "5" by itself
correctly sets "backup mode".  GOLD-5 is supposed to jump to the beginning
of the file.  But what happens is that GNU Emacs accepts the ESC-O-P prefix
(GOLD), stops looking on the second ESC and says it doesn't know what
ESC O P ESC means, then injects "Ou" into the file.  I do not have earlier
versions to see if they did the same thing.  The problem is system- 
independent; I get the same results under Ultrix, Dynix, and VMS.

Anybody with ideas on how to fix this, please respond by e-mail to
  rik@cs.washington.edu

Thanks,
--Rik

page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (11/25/88)

I'd suggest tossing the GNU EDT emulation code and using the package
Jesse Heines (heines@ulowell.edu) wrote, which actually works.

You can pick it up via anonymous FTP from swan.ulowell.edu in
~ftp/gnu/edtkeys.el.shar, or ask me and I'll mail it to you.

..Bob
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