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Date:Mon Aug 20 17:30:45 2001 
Subject:Re: Revised "linuxterm" library for Ved on linux console 
From:Stephen Isard 
Volume-ID:1010820.01 

Aaron Sloman See text for reply address wrote:

> found it useful to extend the linuxkeys.p file to enable
> the function keys F1, F2, etc. to be used as we use them in
> XVed and Ved at birmingham, namely:
> 
>     F1       F2       F3       F4       F5        F6       F7
>  +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+
>  | MARK   | MARK   | DELETE | DELETE | DELETE | DELETE | DELETE |
>  | BEGIN  | END    | LINE <-| LINE   | LINE-> | WORD <-| WORD-> |
>  +--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+--------+

This is the setup I'm familiar with on my sun, and I'm happy to use it
under linux, but I think it is a good idea to keep the standard key
bindings the same for the console and xterms.  In the README of your new
linuxterm.tar.gz, you suggest that this is what you are doing.  There is
a section that starts:

HELP NCDXTERMKEYS                         Revised Aaron Sloman Sept 1998

This file depicts how VED and XVED use keyboards at Birmingham, ...

However, that is not how HELP NCDXTERMKEYS starts on my sun, on my linux
machine - both of which have poplog 15.53 as downloaded from Birmingham
- nor in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/doc/pophelp/ncdxtermkeys.  In
all of those
places the header is

HELP NCDXTERMKEYS                                 Robert Smith, Oct 1989

and the file goes on to say that F1 is bound to DELETE CHAR, F2 to
DELETE LINE < , etc., which is in fact the behaviour of the
vedncdxtermkeys.p that came with my versions of poplog 15.53 (ignoring
the possible sabotage by xterm itself that we were corresponding about a
few months back).

If you have a later version of ncdxtermkeys.p with the new bindings, I
think it would be a good idea to package it and its help file together
with your new vedlinuxkeys.p, so that any linux user who installs the
package will get uniform behaviour in their
console and xterm windows.

Steve