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- From: jabram@pdx025 (Jeff Abramson)
- Subject: Re: function keys
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.195214.13727@ichips.intel.com>
- Sender: news@ichips.intel.com (News Account)
- Organization: Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon
- References: <9212302142.AA17915@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 19:52:14 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- In article <9212302142.AA17915@life.ai.mit.edu> a.0013@vcc3.vcc.bc.CA (Jim Chivas Vancouver Community College) writes:
- >; In the following .emacs file I want to be placed into text-mode by default
- >; and have my function key # 2 on my televideo terminal become the
- >; scroll-up function.
- >;
- >; When I enter emacs I am still in default lisp mode and
- >; when I hit my F2 key I get the letter A placed onto my screen, but no
- >; scrollup.
- >;
- >; I am assuming that I don't have to write some complex function
- >; definition to get my function keys to work. Most of the examples I have seen,
- >; both in the FAQ and other books like GNU Emacs from O'Reilly & Assiciates
- >; seem to state that I can do what I want using the global-set-key features.
- >; The global-unset-key statements do work, though.
- >;
-
- Try this:
-
- ;; F2 incorporates new mail, loading mh if necessary.
- ;;
- (define-key global-map (x-keysym-to-keystrokes "F2")
- 'warp-to-mbox-and-inc)
-
- It works well, and you don't need cryptic codes.
-
-
-
- --
- Jeff Abramson
- Microprocessor Division 6 jabram@ichips.intel.com
- Intel Corporation, Hillsboro OR (503) 696-4784
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