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Date:Mon Jul 29 14:44:19 2003 
Subject:Re: New key bindings for Ved in xterm window, and for XVed 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1030729.02 

Aaron Sloman wrote:
> 
> I have at last done what I have been threatening for some time to do
> namely revise the key bindings for XVed and for the default version of
> Ved for Xterm windows (or linux console) to be consistent (after an
> insert in .Xdefaults to instruct xterm to distinguish certain keys
> that it treats as equivalent by default).

Thanks, Aaron.  I'm about to try it out.

> If you don't use xterm windows, but one of the many surrogates
> that come with gnome or kde, expect trouble: use XVed instead.

I believe that rxvt, in versions 2.7.8 onward, is safe, as long as it
sets the TERM environment variable to 'xterm'.  Setting TERM to xterm is
the default for the rxvt package but there is a configuration option
that lets you change it.  I don't know which, if any, distributions
might configure it to something else (or why they would want to).  If
you have a version that doesn't set TERM to xterm, you can force it with
'rxvt -tn xterm'.  And of course you can tell ved to treat terminals
calling themselves 'rxvt', or whatever, the same as xterms by putting
short vedrxvtsreen.p and vedrxvtkeys.p files into
$usepop/pop/lib/ved/term or suitable code into your own ~/vedinit.p.

Steve