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From: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 72490 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72490: edt emulation
Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2024 14:47:41 +0200

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Hi,

the expected behaviour is the usual one of the arrows: to move the caret.

-Angelo

On Sat, 17 Aug 2024 at 11:13, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Angelo Borsotti <angelo.borsotti <at> gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 10:28:54 +0200
> >
> > I have just downloaded emacs 29.4, and run the edt emulation.
> > Emacs prompts me to define the keyboard mapping, which I did.
> > It saves it in my home\appdata\roaming, withe name .emacs-gnu-W32-keys,
> > which is different from the one indicated in th documentation.
>
> Which documentation states differently, please?
>
> > This, seemingly, is not important because when I run emacs again,
> > it loads it anyway.
> > The problem is that the arrows do not work!
> > If I run emacs, and enter M-x edt-emulation-on and C-h k <right arrow>
> > it displays:
> >
> > <right> runs the command edt-cut, which is an interactive
> > native-compiled Lisp function in ‘edt.el’.
> >
> > It is bound to <right>.
> >
> > (edt-cut)
> >
> > Deletes selected text but copies to kill ring.
> >
> > How can I solve the problem?
>
> When you run the edt-mapper command, and it asks for the arrow keys,
> you need to press the arrow keys on the numeric pad (and make sure
> NumLock is OFF when you do).  Then the arrows will work in the EDT
> emulation; at least they did for me.
>

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