Re: How to make F1/F2/F3/F4 usable in screen emacs?

[Michael Grant]

I have the function keys working well in emacs.  Some function keys
are bound to emacs functions and some are bound to screen functions
(like to switch windows).

I usually use putty as an ssh terminal program but I have bindings for
sun and xterm.

In emacs, I bind a key like this in my .emacs:

(global-set-key '[f3] 'scroll-down-in-place)
(global-set-key "^[[13~" 'scroll-down-in-place)
(global-set-key "^[[226z" 'scroll-down-in-place)

(global-set-key '[f4] 'scroll-up-in-place)
(global-set-key "^[[14~" 'scroll-up-in-place)
(global-set-key "^[[227z" 'scroll-up-in-place)

If you want to discover the function key sequence of one of the
function keys, I suggest you press ctrl-q before the function key and
it will insert it's sequence into the buffer.

To bind the function keys to screen things, I put this in my .screenrc:

# f9,f10,f11,f12 selects window 3,0,1,2
bindkey -k k9 select 3
bindkey -k k; select 0
bindkey -k F1 select 1
bindkey -k F2 select 2
# same thing but for Sun keyboard
bindkey "\033[232z" select 3
bindkey "\033[233z" select 0
bindkey "\033[192z" select 1
bindkey "\033[193z" select 2

I don't think I ever did this for xterm, but you can see the general idea.

Michael Grant

On Jan 21, 2008 5:48 PM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Dear friends,
> I try to use emacs under screen environment, I bind some oftenly used 
> function to F1/F2/F3/F4 under
> emacs, when I try to
> use these, it seems not work. Can anyone help me on this? Thanks a lot. :)
>
> Here is my .screenrc file:
> ------------------BEGIN----------------------
> #kill startup message
> startup_message off
>
> defflow off
>
> # define a bigger scrollback, default is 100 lines, I like large scrollback
> defscrollback 1024
>
> # An alternative hardstatus to display a bar at the bottom listing the
> # windownames and highlighting the current windowname in blue. (This is only
> # enabled if there is no hardstatus setting for your terminal)
> hardstatus on
> hardstatus alwayslastline
> hardstatus string "%{.bW}%-w%{.rW}%n %t%{-}%+w %=%{..G} %H %{..Y} %m/%d %C%a "
> # caption always "%?%F%{-b 4w}%:%{-b bb}%? %H | %l | %m-%d %c |%?%F%{-b 
> 4w}%?%L=%-Lw%45>%{-b
> w4}%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%-0<"
>
> # key bingdings
> # remove some stupid/dangerous key bindings
> bind k
> bind ^k
> bind .
> bind ^\
> bind \\
> bind ^h
> bind h
> bind l windowlist
> bindkey ^[, prev      # use Alt+, to show preview screen window
> bindkey ^[. next      # use Alt+. to show next screen window
>
> # Our warning of activity
> activity "Activity in %t(%n)"
>
> # Escape key is C-z.  (I use C-a too much in Emacs.)
> #escape ^zz
> # Escape key is `  (I use C-a too much in Emacs)
> escape ``
> --------------------------END----------------------------
>
>
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