[comp.emacs] VT100 keys and auto-repeating

lauri@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA ("Lauri A. Szklut") (08/13/87)

When I'm using emacs on my VT220, I can keep keys like C-f pressed down 
and the command will repeat i.e. the cursor will keep moving forward one 
character at a time until I let go.  This doesn't work on my VT100 however.
Does anyone know why and/or how I can fix it?  We're running version 18.41
under ULTRIX.  Thanks in advance.

Lauri Szklut
MITRE Corporation
Bedford, MA

sca%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@osu-eddie.UUCP (Stanley C. Ahalt) (08/15/87)

In article <8708132014.AA28192@mitre-bedford.ARPA> lauri@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA ("Lauri A. Szklut") writes:
>
>When I'm using emacs on my VT220, I can keep keys like C-f pressed down 
>and the command will repeat i.e. the cursor will keep moving forward one 
>character at a time until I let go.  This doesn't work on my VT100 however.
>Does anyone know why and/or how I can fix it?  We're running version 18.41
>under ULTRIX.  Thanks in advance.
>
>Lauri Szklut
>MITRE Corporation
>Bedford, MA

We are running Gnu Emacs 18.47.1 and I cannot get the arrow keys to repeat.
In my .login are the lines:
	setkeys nosunview
	setkeys noarrow
but commenting them out seems to disable the keypad functions altogether,
as would be expected.  I cannot manage to determine how to get the arrow
keys to repeat, and I would appreciate any suggestions.  We are running
on Sun 3/50s.

Thanks,

Stan Ahalt
Department of Electrical Engineering
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio

jr@LF-SERVER-2.BBN.COM (John Robinson) (08/17/87)

>> In article <8708132014.AA28192@mitre-bedford.ARPA> lauri@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA ("Lauri A. Szklut") writes:
>> >
>> >When I'm using emacs on my VT220, I can keep keys like C-f pressed down 
>> >and the command will repeat.[...]  This doesn't work on my VT100 however.

>> We are running Gnu Emacs 18.47.1 and I cannot get the arrow keys to repeat.

>> We are running on Sun 3/50s.

Auto-repeat is strictly a local terminal function.  Some terminals
never do it, some have a separate key to do it (they are not "auto-"
repeaters at all, I guess).  Terminals that do it by key-lean may do
it only for the printing characters, or for all characters, or
whatever.  At any rate, you'll have to consult your terminal manual,
or terminal simulator software manual.  This has nothing whatever to
do with emacs, except that in some cases emacs may be able to enable
or disable the feature through initialization sequences.

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