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* calc/calc.el (calc-default-power-reference-level) (calc-default-field-reference-level): New variables. * calc/calc-units.el (math-standard-units): Add dB and Np. (math-logunits): New variable. (math-extract-logunits, math-logcombine, calcFunc-luplus) (calcFunc-luminus, calc-luplus, calc-luminus, math-logunit-level) (calcFunc-fieldlevel, calcFunc-powerlevel, calc-level): New functions. (math-find-base-units-rec): Add entry for ln(10). * calc/calc-help.el (calc-u-prefix-help): Add logarithmic help. (calc-ul-prefix-help): New function. * calc/calc-ext.el (calc-init-extensions): Autoload new units functions. Add keybindings for new units functions.
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2 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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3 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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6 This directory contains files of elisp that customize Emacs for certain
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7 terminal types.
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9 When Emacs opens a new terminal, it checks the TERM environment variable to
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10 see what type of terminal the user is running on, searches for an elisp file
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11 named "term/${TERM}.el", and if one exists, loads it. If Emacs finds no
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12 suitable file, then it strips the last hyphen and what follows it from TERM,
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13 and tries again. If that still doesn't yield a file, then the previous hyphen
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14 is stripped, and so on until all hyphens are gone. For example, if the
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15 terminal type is `aaa-48-foo', Emacs will try first `term/aaa-48-foo.el', then
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16 `term/aaa-48.el' and finally `term/aaa.el'. Emacs stops searching at the
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17 first file found, and will not load more than one file for any terminal. Note
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18 that it is not an error if Emacs is unable to find a terminal initialization
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19 file; in that case, it will simply proceed with the next step without loading
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20 any files.
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22 Once the file has been loaded (or the search failed), Emacs tries to call a
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23 function named `terminal-init-TERMINALNAME' (eg `terminal-init-aaa-48' for the
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24 `aaa-48' terminal) in order to initialize the terminal. Once again, if the
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25 function is not found, Emacs strips the last component of the name and tries
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26 again using the shorter name. This search is independent of the previous file
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27 search, so that you can have terminal initialization functions for a family of
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28 terminals collected in a single file named after the family name, and users
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29 may put terminal initialization functions directly in their .emacs files.
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31 Note that an individual terminal file is loaded only once in an Emacs
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32 session; if the same terminal type is opened again, Emacs will simply call the
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33 initialization function without reloading the file. Therefore, all the actual
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34 initialization actions should be collected in terminal-init-* functions; the
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35 file should not contain any top-level form that is not a function or variable
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36 declaration. Simply loading the file should not have any side effect.
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38 Similarly, the terminal initialization function is called only once on any
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39 given terminal, when the first frame is created on it. The function is not
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40 called for subsequent frames on the same terminal. Therefore, terminal-init-*
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41 functions should only modify terminal-local variables (such as
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42 `local-function-key-map') and terminal parameters. For example, it is not
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77 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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78 Variable name cap X Keysym Description
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79 -------------- --- ------------ -------------------------------------
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80 key_down kd down Sent by terminal down arrow key
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81 key_up ku up Sent by terminal up arrow key
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82 key_left kl left Sent by terminal left arrow key
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83 key_right kr right Sent by terminal right arrow key
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84 key_home kh home Sent by home key.
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85 key_backspace kb Sent by backspace key
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86 key_dl kd deleteline Sent by delete line key.
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87 key_il kA insertline Sent by insert line.
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88 key_dc kD Sent by delete character key.
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89 key_ic kI insertchar (1) Sent by ins char/enter ins mode key.
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90 key_eic KM Sent by rmir or smir in insert mode.
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91 key_clear kC Sent by clear screen or erase key.
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92 key_eos kS Sent by clear-to-end-of-screen key.
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93 key_eol kE Sent by clear-to-end-of-line key.
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94 key_sf kF Sent by scroll-forward/down key
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95 key_sr kR Sent by scroll-backward/up key
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96 key_npage kN next (2) Sent by next-page key
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97 key_ppage kP prior (2) Sent by previous-page key
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98 key_stab kT Sent by set-tab key
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99 key_ctab kt Sent by clear-tab key
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100 key_catab ka Sent by clear-all-tabs key.
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101 key_enter @8 kp-enter Enter/send (unreliable)
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102 key_print %9 print print or copy
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103 key_ll kH Sent by home-down key
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109 key_btab kB backtab Back tab key
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110 key_beg @1 begin beg(inning) key
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111 key_cancel @2 cancel cancel key
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112 key_close @3 close key
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113 key_command @4 execute (3) cmd (command) key
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114 key_copy @5 copy key
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115 key_create @6 create key
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116 key_end @7 end end key
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117 key_exit @9 exit key
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118 key_find @0 find key
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119 key_help %1 help key
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120 key_mark %2 mark key
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121 key_message %3 message key
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122 key_move %4 move key
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123 key_next %5 next (2) next object key
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124 key_open %6 open key
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125 key_options %7 menu (3) options key
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126 key_previous %8 previous (2) previous object key
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127 key_redo %0 redo redo key
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128 key_reference &1 ref(erence) key
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129 key_refresh &2 refresh key
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130 key_replace &3 replace key
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131 key_restart &4 reset (3) restart key
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132 key_resume &5 resume key
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133 key_save &6 save key
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134 key_sbeg &9 shifted beginning key
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135 key_select *6 select select key
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136 key_suspend &7 suspend key
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137 key_undo &8 undo undo key
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152 key_sleft #4 shifted left arrow key
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155 key_snext %c shifted next key
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163 key_ssave !1 shifted save key
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170 key_f3 k3 f3 function key 3
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176 key_f9 k9 f9 function key 9
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177 key_f10 k; f10 (4) function key 10
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178 key_f11 F1 f11 function key 11
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180 key_f35 FP f35 function key 35
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183 key_f64 k1 function key 64
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188 The presumption is that keyboards with `insert character' keys usually
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201 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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203 The following X keysyms do *not* have terminfo equivalents. These are
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209 kp-backtab
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210 kp-space
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211 kp-tab
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212 kp-f1
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216 kp-multiply
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217 kp-add
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227 kp-equal
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229 In general, you should not bind any of the standard keysym names to
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230 functions in a terminal package. There's code in loaddefs.el that does that;
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231 the less people make exceptions to that, the more consistent an interface Emacs
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232 will have across different keyboards. Those exceptions should go in your
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233 .emacs file.
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235 Finally, if you're using a USL UNIX or a Sun box or anything else with the
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236 USL version of curses(3) on it, bear in mind that the original curses(3) had
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238 ones were just the arrow keys and the first ten function keys. If you care
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239 about making your package portable to older Berkeley machines, don't count on
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240 the setup code to bind anything else.
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242 If your terminal's arrow key sequences are so funky that they conflict with
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243 normal Emacs key bindings, the package should set up a function called
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244 (enable-foo-arrow-keys), where `foo' becomes the terminal name, and leave
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245 it up to the user's .emacs file whether to call it.
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247 Before writing a terminal-support package, it's a good idea to read the
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248 existing ones and learn the common conventions.
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