CMUCL left paren == backspace

From: Ng Pheng Siong
Subject: CMUCL left paren == backspace
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 08:11:55 +0000
Message-ID: <a6cg4b$onp$1@coco.singnet.com.sg>

Hi,

I've just installed CMUCL 18c from a freshly cvsup'ed FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE
ports tree. Installation went fine. I type 'lisp' and the interpreter comes
up, but I can't do much of anything because the left paren key produces
backspace!

This is on a brand-new FreeBSD installation. 

What am I missing?

TIA. Cheers.


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Re: CMUCL left paren == backspace Richard Krush
- Re: CMUCL left paren == backspace Ng Pheng Siong

From: Richard Krush
Subject: Re: CMUCL left paren == backspace
Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 18:00:24 +0000
Message-ID: <Xns91CC66120AE78richardkgmxnet@130.133.1.4>

····@madcap.netmemetic.com (Ng Pheng Siong) wrote in
·················@coco.singnet.com.sg: 

> Hi,
> 
> I've just installed CMUCL 18c from a freshly cvsup'ed FreeBSD
> 4.5-STABLE ports tree. Installation went fine. I type 'lisp' and
> the interpreter comes up, but I can't do much of anything because
> the left paren key produces backspace!
> 
> This is on a brand-new FreeBSD installation. 
> 
> What am I missing?
> 

Hi,

I have the same problem when I try to use CMUCL from ATERM in X-
Windows (I use FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE). When I run CMUCL in any other
terminal emulator, everything works just fine. I'm assuming there is 
slight incompitability between CMUCL's and ATERM's keycodes.

In any case this is not a major annoyance, since I don't see why it 
would be necessary to run Lisp directly from the shell. Moreover, 
CMUCL (unlike CLISP) offers no editing functions whatsoever, so it 
is advisable to run CMUCL in EMACS, which allows line editing and 
has command history.

Regards,
  Richard

From: Ng Pheng Siong
Subject: Re: CMUCL left paren == backspace
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 01:22:45 +0000
Message-ID: <a6ech5$unk$1@coco.singnet.com.sg>

According to Richard Krush  <·········@gmx.net>:
> ····@madcap.netmemetic.com (Ng Pheng Siong) wrote in
> > I've just installed CMUCL 18c from a freshly cvsup'ed FreeBSD
> > 4.5-STABLE ports tree. Installation went fine. I type 'lisp' and
> > the interpreter comes up, but I can't do much of anything because
> > the left paren key produces backspace!
> 
> I have the same problem when I try to use CMUCL from ATERM in X-
> Windows (I use FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE). When I run CMUCL in any other
> terminal emulator, everything works just fine. I'm assuming there is 
> slight incompitability between CMUCL's and ATERM's keycodes.

Ahh. In my case, I'm using rxvt.


> In any case this is not a major annoyance, since I don't see why it 
> would be necessary to run Lisp directly from the shell. Moreover, 
> CMUCL (unlike CLISP) offers no editing functions whatsoever, so it 
> is advisable to run CMUCL in EMACS, which allows line editing and 
> has command history.

You're right. After CMUCL I'll be installing Emacs and ILisp. I just wanted
to test that CMUCL was ok. ;-)

Thanks for the reply. Cheers.


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