bug#72490: edt emulation

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 10:28:54 +0200
> 
> I have just downloaded emacs 29.4, and run the edt emulation.
> Emacs prompts me to define the keyboard mapping, which I did.
> It saves it in my home\appdata\roaming, withe name .emacs-gnu-W32-keys,
> which is different from the one indicated in th documentation.

Which documentation states differently, please?

> This, seemingly, is not important because when I run emacs again,
> it loads it anyway.
> The problem is that the arrows do not work!
> If I run emacs, and enter M-x edt-emulation-on and C-h k <right arrow>
> it displays:
> 
> <right> runs the command edt-cut, which is an interactive
> native-compiled Lisp function in ‘edt.el’.
> 
> It is bound to <right>.
> 
> (edt-cut)
> 
> Deletes selected text but copies to kill ring.
> 
> How can I solve the problem?

When you run the edt-mapper command, and it asks for the arrow keys,
you need to press the arrow keys on the numeric pad (and make sure
NumLock is OFF when you do).  Then the arrows will work in the EDT
emulation; at least they did for me.