Emacs Prelude Terminal Arrow Keys
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Prelude made the cut since I was
starting fresh anyway. It worked well until I opened emacsclient
and found that the arrow keys produced A B C and D rather than
cursor movement. It smacks of vi on some of our older and crappier
systems at work. This is a deal breaker.
The ErgoEmacs user list solved the issue.
The ErgoEmacs team received a bug report that matched my own, and another
Prelude user even beat me there. Mapping M-o and M-O kills arrow
key behavior when running Emacs in a terminal, and Prelude does just that.
To stop this behavior, open ~/.emacs.d/core/prelude-mode.el and comment
out the following two key definitions:
;; (define-key map (kbd "M-o") 'prelude-smart-open-line)
;; (define-key map (kbd "M-O") 'prelude-smart-open-line-above)
Feel free to send me angry email explaining why I shouldn’t use the arrow keys at all. I’ll think fondly of you and your zeal as I delete the message without a second thought.