Subject: Terminal 'special' keys handling

From: David Brownlee <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 10:23:01 +0000 (GMT)

Every public terminal (sun/PC) at this site has PageUp/PageDown,
	and also seperate delete/backspace keys... (Also Home & End)

	Some thoughts on keys...

	On an Xterm PageUp & PageDown work fine in pico, but not in the
	index, and not at all in pico. It would be *REALLY* nice if 
	they would work all the time! Home & End would be nice too!
	
	Also, an option to make Delete work the same as ^D, possibly in the
	.pinerc? I know this would be bad news for people on genuine DEC
	terminals, but if you make it settable via options, or even only
	via .pinerc so novices dont muck it up?

	What do people think?

			David

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From: Mike Roch <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 1994 11:20:23 +0000 (GMT)

I believe Pico is a "down-sized" (demolished?) MicroEmacs. Since you can't
please all the people all the time (PC users will want wordprocessor-like
things, Unix users will want emacs/vi-like things) why not get Pico to
look for/obey a .emacsrc file and be done with it. 

Dare I add that for most Pine users (that I know) configurability is a
pretty arcane area.

Mike

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