hamilton@mit-caf.UUCP (David P. Hamilton) (06/08/88)
In installing version 18.36.5 of GNUemacs on a SUN 3/60 running 4.2BSD, I've come across some problems, most of which are probably old hat to those of you with any familiarity at all with the guts of the program. Nevertheless, I'd be obliged if someone out there could give me some pointers toward solving these problems. (I'd appreciate getting such help via e-mail, as I visit this account only infrequently, and a posting would likely get purged before I could see it.) PROBLEM ONE: GNU is up and running fine on the Sun, which is on a DECnet along with several VAXes (an 8800 and assorted uVAXen, all running VMS 4.7). Flow control is handled well on the Sun console itself, but the ^S/^Q combination locks up Tektronix 4105/4107s. That is, a user on one of the Teks will log into a VAX, telnet to the Sun, start up GNU, and experience flow control problems. I've played with alternate termcap entries for the 4105 (mostly with the ti: and te: strings) and diddled with the terminal setup, but nothing seems to have worked. How do I beat the nefarious problem of poor flow control? PROBLEM TWO: I'd like to bind the Sun console's arrow keys to the functions next-line, previous-line, etc. The codes for these keys are of the form ESC-[A, ESC-[B, ..., which are not accessible via global-set-key. I played around trying to define an alternate keymap with ESC-[ as a prefix, to no effect. Define-key won't accept any syntax I can think of. What's going on? Can I fix this? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, and I can summarize to the net if there's interest. -- David P. Hamilton "The Democratic party of the nation ain't dead, hamilton@caf.mit.edu though it's been givin' a lifelike imitation of a hamilton@mit-caf.UUCP corpse for several years." hamilton%caf@mitvma.bitnet ...!bloom-beacon!mit-eddie!mit-amt!mit-caf!hamilton