[comp.emacs] GNU EMACS 18.51 on VMS

ken@sun.soe.clarkson.edu.UUCP (07/01/88)

I just updated from 18.50 to 18.51 GNU EMACS on our VMS system.  I'm
having a bit of a problem with 51, however.  After I press a C-G to
quit a command (any command), my arrow keys no longer work.  I've
tried this with a VT-102 emulator (Kermit-MS) as well as a real
VT-100, and had the same results on both.  The arrow keys work fine up
until the C-G, and then they die.  I've hooked up an RS-232 probe to
the serial port and I see that the arrow keys are sending the same ESC
sequences before and after the C-G.  However, EMACS never sees the
ESC, and it inserts the subsequent letters as text.  For example, OC
for the right arrow key.  To make matters more confusing, I've found
that this only happens on our VAX, and not on our Sun.  Also, if I
Telnet into the VAX from my micro via NCSA's Telnet and an ethernet
connection, the problem does not exist.  So, it only appears to affect
asynchronously connected terminals to our VAX.  When I tried to
duplicate this with 18.50, everything worked fine; the problem does
not exist in 18.50.

Any suggestions or clues would be *GREATLY* appreciated!  Send them to
LUKEN@VAX1.CC.LEHIGH.EDU please.


Regards,

Kenneth R. van Wyk
Lehigh University Computing Center