From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: robinb@ruffnready.co.uk (robinb@ruffnready.co.uk) Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:49:04 +0000 Subject: [pups] jove editor under 2.11BSD and cursor keys In-Reply-To: <4962685B.30005@gsi.de> Message-ID: 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 >