From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: arrow keys in the console Date: 21 May 2007 12:03:54 GMT Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company Message-ID: References: <87646qoaow.fsf@thalassa.lan.informatimago.com> <877ir5fsbb.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179751258 7159 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2007 12:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 12:40:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 21 14:40:57 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 1Hq7C2-0006gp-Vf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:40:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hq7C2-0003wX-B3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 May 2007 08:40:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: individual.net BhcR45p63pYHQIrUeTsAyAfRHf4a11jxxHmiMiQC9iamwBVE5m User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148629 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:44220 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa wrote: > > 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 may not apply to the OP, but I'm surely not the only one who uses Emacs frequently in situations where there *is* no X-server, not only in Linux but also in FreeBSD and QNX. > this "linux" terminal device as a Linux virtual console? Isn't vi > sufficient for a bit of editing in this situation? Not for me it isn't! I do a *lot* of editing in a console. As a matter of fact, it was because I found myself working in an evironment without X (under QNX) that I really starting using Emacs heavily, since I couldn't use my previous editor of choice (NEdit). - Will