From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: arrow keys in the console Date: 20 May 2007 15:43:02 GMT Organization: Sedgeboy Inc. Message-ID: References: <87646qoaow.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> <877ir5fsbb.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179679236 26694 80.91.229.12 (20 May 2007 16:40:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:40:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 20 18:40:35 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 1HpoSN-0002Bo-TA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 18:40:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HpoSN-0003Wb-8h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 May 2007 12:40:31 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nx02.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!post01.iad01!news.aliant.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian) Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aliant.net Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148619 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:44209 Archived-At: On 2007-05-19, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > 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. > > > 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? > Most of the time I actually use Emacs as an x application, but also often from within an xterm. My experiments with the console are primarily educational excursions - just trying to figure out how things work. I won't bother you with more questions on the topic - I've now been pointed towards a number of resources that will take me a while to sort through. Thanks, Tyler