Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!uw-june!june.cs.washington.edu!richk From: richk@june.cs.washington.edu (Richard Korry) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: strings from a key Message-ID: <9567@june.cs.washington.edu> Date: 24 Oct 89 03:11:13 GMT Sender: richk@cs.washington.edu Reply-To: richk@june.cs.washington.edu (Richard Korry) Distribution: na Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle Lines: 7 I want to make some keys on my DecStation 2100 produce strings similar to those produced by the rest of the keyboard, e.g. ^[[5~. Is xmodmap the way to do this? The line % xmodmap -e "keycode 142 = Escape bracketleft ..." does not work as it only binds escape. So there is obviously something else I am missing that the man pages does not explain. ANy help is appreciated. Please e-mail response. thanks rich