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

[Michael Grant]

As far as I know, when you press an F key in Putty, Putty sends the
escape sequence to the terminal.

Michael

On Jan 22, 2008 11:49 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Thanks Michael, :) It's work fine for me. But I am still wondering. Does 
> Putty steal away F1/F2/F3/F4 keys or other
> applications?
>
>
> "Michael Grant" <mgrant-q2t/address@hidden> writes:
>
> > 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,  <pei.linux-9Onoh4P/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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