From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bqt@softjar.se (Johnny Billquist) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:54:01 +0100 Subject: [pups] jove editor under 2.11BSD and cursor keys In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <49638CA9.6010703@softjar.se> And most proper emacs (and clone) users don't use the arrow keys, but use ^P, ^N, ^F and ^B. So this particular problem don't show. :-) Jove is actually a pretty nice Emacs clone. I wonder if I should try to port it to RSX... Johnny robinb at ruffnready.co.uk wrote: > IIRC the version of Jove that is on 2.11 was put on by me back in the late 80s to replace an even earlier version and I used a VT220 at home as opposed to xterm or whatever on a sim. As a result I was quite happy with using the defaults for whatever was set up for the then available hardware as I used a real PDP with real DEC terminals :-) > > Cheers > > Robin > > PS: It may have been updated since then I can't really recall. > > W.F.J.Mueller at gsi.de wrote: >> Johnny Billquist wrote: >>> Walter F. Mueller wrote: >>>> .... >>>> I get whenever I hit one of the cursor keys the message >>>> >>>> [ESC O unbound] >>> ... >>> Please note the difference between "[" and "O"... :-) >>> >>> To give you a little more help: someone or something is changing your >>> terminal to have application cursor keys. >>> (And to point out what should be obvious now: your cursor keys can >>> actually send two different kind of codes, depending on a setup parameter.) >>> >>> Johnny >> Thanks Johnny, that was exactly the problem. jove sets the terminal >> (or the emulator) into 'Application Cursor Key' and 'Application Keypad' >> mode. Looking in xterm at the VT Options popup (with CONTROL-MB2) shows >> this nicely. Binding the 'ansi-codes' function of Jove 4.9 (that's what >> comes with 2.11BSD) to [O resolves the cursor issue. >> >> What I still don't understand is why jove comes with defaults which >> don't work. It puts the cursor and keypad keys into application mode, >> which makes perfect sense especially for the keypad, and than looks >> for [[ rather [O. Probably to make retrocomputing more fun :). >> >> >> Thanks and with best regards, Walter >> _______________________________________________ >> PUPS mailing list >> PUPS at minnie.tuhs.org >> https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/pups >> >