From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: arrow keys in the console Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 19:22:32 +0200 Message-ID: <3DF750A0-C5E2-4DCF-B027-BC1C65E9F2C1@Web.DE> References: <87646qoaow.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> <877ir5fsbb.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179595386 18145 80.91.229.12 (19 May 2007 17:23:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 17:23:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tyler Smith Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 19 19:23:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HpSdv-0002On-Fr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 19:22:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSdv-0002qw-15 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:22:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSdf-0002qZ-Ct for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSdd-0002qF-PQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:22:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpSdd-0002qC-NF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate02.web.de ([217.72.192.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HpSdd-0000ED-BE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 May 2007 13:22:41 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp06.web.de (fmsmtp06.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.5.172]) by fmmailgate02.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46EC17F25D2F; Sat, 19 May 2007 19:22:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [62.134.234.53] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp06.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.108 #197) id 1HpSdb-00074D-00; Sat, 19 May 2007 19:22:39 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18VtiY5B6H00plmde/Tf9PkmgqrvzIVNc3b3h+f Jl0aJHXvcALukNzDQMa+6ZrTyhFigYg9EYwtihKoW8jwGFXXWc Ln4Abb1AHnMSJ2IMl7YA== X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:44194 Archived-At: Am 19.05.2007 um 16:59 schrieb Tyler Smith: > It's become apparent > that I need to read up on keymaps in Linux in general in order to > figure out which of my problems are in Emacs, which are in Debian, and > which are in the particular way i've configured each. When I compare xterm.el and vt100.el with linux.el, then I see that linux.el does make any key bindings. Reason can be that every Linux distribution changes the TERMCAP entry every few months in a distribution personalised fashion, so it does not make any sense to create sensible key bindings. The question is why anyone is using such a thing. Xterm can be a console, too, it only needs an X server and an option. Are you using this "linux" terminal device as a Linux virtual console? Isn't vi sufficient for a bit of editing in this situation? -- Greetings Pete === -Q ==<__/% >> _____________(_)____@_____________________________