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From: samperi@marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xterm cntrl seq docs exist! (and keyboard mappings)
Keywords: xterm,control sequences, modes
Message-ID: <250735D4.D43@marob.masa.com>
Date: 8 Sep 89 03:45:21 GMT
Organization: ESCC, New York City
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I posted a request for information about the Xterm Control Sequence
manual that is mentioned in the xterm man page, but is not available
with the X11R3 distribution. I received several responses, all but one
of which contained the claimed that this is a "mythical" document. 
Fortunately, one person proved that it actually exists by sending me
a copy (in troff format). I do not have it handy here on my news
machine, but I'll post it if people are interested (it's about 12K).

I have a related question that perhaps people could comment on. Namely,
the xterm man page describes how one can dynamically change the keyboard
mapping by means of a dedicated function key, but it does not make it clear
if it is possible to alter the keyboard mapping my sending an escape
sequence from a program, or if a keyboard mapping can be specified
in the X startup file via *VT100.Translations:    mapping. What I would
like to do is make entries in my database (resource) file that specify
xterm's with different keyboard mappings. Something like:

xterm-foo*geometry:	whatever
xterm-foo*translations: whatever

What would/can one specify in place of whatever here? Can one use
escape sequences to select keyboard mappings? Thanks for any clues.

Dominick Samperi
Citicorp
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