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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
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Subject: Re: strings from a key
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Date: 24 Oct 89 18:37:05 GMT
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In article <9567@june.cs.washington.edu>, richk@june.cs.washington.edu
(Richard Korry) writes:
> 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~. 

There is no global way of doing this in X.  You'd really mess up some
applications if you do it globally.  You can do it in an
application-dependent way, for applications that support it.  For
example, xterm supports string mapping through translation management.
dxterm supports it through VT100/VT300 emulation.  Other applications
do similar things, in an application-dependent fashion.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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