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From: kit@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Strangeness with keypress sequence in translation table
Message-ID: <8907252015.AA04500@expo.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 25 Jul 89 20:15:03 GMT
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[ mcvax!kth!sunic!ericom!erix.ericsson.se!per@uunet.uu.net  (Per Hedeland)
  writes: ]

> I tried to add some translations to the Text Widget, in particular I wanted
> sequences like Escape,f to have the same action as Meta-f. For simplicity,
> let's assume that the original translation table was just

> Meta<Key>F:		forward-word() \n\
> <Key>:			insert-char()

> To this I added (with XtOverrideTranslations) my

> <Key>Escape,<Key>F:	forward-word()

> and it worked fine, *but* Meta-f and unmodified f *stopped* working...



This is a bug in the MIT Xt implementation. 

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium 

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