[9796] in Athena Bugs
Re: vax 7.4G: ez
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 14 23:09:08 1992
From: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 23:08:58 -0400
To: vanharen@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [9795]
Reply-To: yandros@Athena.MIT.EDU
Whew.
1) Weird.
2) Weird.
3) Yeah, I was talking to Bill about this just a couple days ago.
What's happening is that emacs is winning because it's using a
different kludge: the arrow keys are generating ^P, ^N, ^B, and ^F.
EZ is not because of the way it has to deal with arrow keys as
escape sequences. Looking at the problem, I'm not sure there is a
good solution (I don't count rewriting the im as a solution. :-).
We could hack it to work a number of ways, but they are all
sufficiently ugly (to me, at least) to make me not want to
implement them. In short, there's no way to distinguish between
the escape-A sent by hitting the arrow key and the escape-A sent by
hitting ESC-A.
-C
