;;; ;;; Support (cleanly) for Sun function keys. Provides help facilities, ;;; better diagnostics, etc. ;;; ;;; To use: make sure your .ttyswrc binds 'F1' to * F1 and so on. ;;; load this lot from your start_up ;;; ;;; ;;; Copyright (C) 1986 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Emacs. ;;; ;;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;;; but without any warranty. No author or distributor ;;; accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it ;;; or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, ;;; unless he says so in writing. ;;; ;;; Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute ;;; GNU Emacs, but only under the conditions described in the ;;; document "GNU Emacs copying permission notice". An exact copy ;;; of the document is supposed to have been given to you along with ;;; GNU Emacs so that you can know how you may redistribute it all. ;;; It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other things, the ;;; copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all copies. ;;; ;;; Batten@uk.ac.bham.multics (Ian G. Batten) ;;; (defun sun-function-keys-dispatch (arg) "Dispatcher for function keys." (interactive "p") (let* ((key-stroke (read t)) (command (assq key-stroke sun-function-keys-command-list))) (cond (command (funcall (cdr command) arg)) (t (error "Unbound function key %s" key-stroke))))) (defvar sun-function-keys-command-list '((F1 . sun-function-keys-describe-bindings) (R8 . previous-line) ; arrow keys (R10 . backward-char) (R12 . forward-char) (R14 . next-line))) (defun sun-function-keys-bind-key (arg1 arg2) "Bind a specified key." (interactive "xFunction Key Cap Label: CCommand To Use:") (setq sun-function-keys-command-list (cons (cons arg1 arg2) sun-function-keys-command-list))) (defun sun-function-keys-describe-bindings (arg) "Describe the function key bindings we're running" (interactive) (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*" (sun-function-keys-write-bindings (sort (copy-sequence sun-function-keys-command-list) '(lambda (x y) (string-lessp (car x) (car y))))))) (defun sun-function-keys-write-bindings (list) (cond ((null list) t) (t (princ (format "%s: %s\n" (car (car list)) (cdr (car list)))) (sun-function-keys-write-bindings (cdr list))))) (global-set-key "\e*" 'sun-function-keys-dispatch) (make-variable-buffer-local 'sun-function-keys-command-list)