emacs on MAC OS X 10.2

emacs on MAC OS X 10.2

[mark belloni]

help-gnu-emacs:  I am a powerbook G4 OS X 10.2 user and am brand new to 
GNU Emacs.

To customize GNU Emacs, I have tried to create a .emacs file that is 
bug free without
success that works on the terminal.app .

What I would like to do at this time is two fold.

1.) map the arrow keys to their respective GNU Emacs commands.
1a.) preserve the C-x 1 window setting; when butchering the attempt at
        1.) the window gets split into 2.  I tried to get a macro 
inserted into
         .emacs below but it does not work

2.) map the delete-backward-char command to the "delete" key.  I could 
not so
      I chose to map to the "pipe" key instead.

Anyway, below is the butchered .emacs file so far, which needs 
attention.

Please advise.

Mark

(setq term-file-prefix nil)
(send-string-to-terminal "\e=")

(fset 'kbdmac                  ; macro to correct the split window
    "\C-x1\C-m")


(define-key global-map "|" 'delete-backward-char)   ;delete key

(define-key global-map "ESC-O A" 'previous-line)    ;activate  up arrow 
key
(define-key global-map "ESC-O B" 'next-line)        ;activate  down 
arrow key
(define-key global-map "ESC-O C" 'forward-char)     ;activate  right 
arrow key
(define-key global-map "ESC-O D" 'backward-char)    ;activate  left 
arrow key

Re: emacs on MAC OS X 10.2

[Rodney Sparapani]

Mark:

Check out the documentation for define-key, i.e. C-h f define-key
For example, this is what 'up' should be (I think):
(define-key global-map "\^[OA" 'previous-line)    ;activate  up arrow key

mark belloni wrote:

> help-gnu-emacs:  I am a powerbook G4 OS X 10.2 user and am brand new 
> to GNU Emacs.
>
> To customize GNU Emacs, I have tried to create a .emacs file that is 
> bug free without
> success that works on the terminal.app .
>
> What I would like to do at this time is two fold.
>
> 1.) map the arrow keys to their respective GNU Emacs commands.
> 1a.) preserve the C-x 1 window setting; when butchering the attempt at
>        1.) the window gets split into 2.  I tried to get a macro 
> inserted into
>         .emacs below but it does not work
>
> 2.) map the delete-backward-char command to the "delete" key.  I could 
> not so
>      I chose to map to the "pipe" key instead.
>
> Anyway, below is the butchered .emacs file so far, which needs attention.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Mark
>
> (setq term-file-prefix nil)
> (send-string-to-terminal "\e=")
>
> (fset 'kbdmac                  ; macro to correct the split window
>    "\C-x1\C-m")
>
>
> (define-key global-map "|" 'delete-backward-char)   ;delete key
>
> (define-key global-map "ESC-O A" 'previous-line)    ;activate  up 
> arrow key
> (define-key global-map "ESC-O B" 'next-line)        ;activate  down 
> arrow key
> (define-key global-map "ESC-O C" 'forward-char)     ;activate  right 
> arrow key
> (define-key global-map "ESC-O D" 'backward-char)    ;activate  left 
> arrow key
>
>
>


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Re: emacs on MAC OS X 10.2

[Benjamin Riefenstahl]

Hi Mark,


I assum you are using the pre-installed Emacs, which is rather old.
Instead you may want to get Emacs from CVS and build it yourself.
That gives you a real Aqua windowing mode and it also should fix your
arrow key problem in the terminal mode.


so long, benny

Re: emacs on MAC OS X 10.2

[Kai Großjohann]

mark belloni <markbelloni@earthlink.net> writes:

> (define-key global-map "ESC-O A" 'previous-line)    ;activate  up
> arrow key

That's the wrong way to do it.  Emacs looks in lisp/term/foo.el if
$TERM is set to foo for the keybindings to use.  (the lisp/term/README
file has more data.)  If that file contains the wrong bindings, please
submit a bug report to the Emacs developers.  But maybe $TERM is just
set wrongly?

If you want to have it quick, try 

(define-key function-key-map (kbd "ESC O A") (kbd "<up>"))

and similar statements.  Note that the string after kbd uses the same
syntax that's produced by C-h k, C-h l and friends.

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Re: emacs on MAC OS X 10.2

[Per Rønne]

Kai Großjohann <kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de> wrote:

> That's the wrong way to do it.

Personally, I'm using QuicKeys for that ...
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