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From: nowlin@gramian.harvard.edu (Bill Nowlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Slick keymapping and Red Ryder 10.3?
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Date: 17 Nov 89 16:06:20 GMT
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I have a Mac II with the little keyboard (numeric keypad, but
no function keys) which I sometimes use as a terminal with a
modem.  I would like to remap the numeric keypad to do useful
things for me while I'm running Red Ryder 10.3 to talk to a
Unix system.

Ideally I want the numeric keypad to send escape sequences
(like "OP") which emacs can interpret as commands.

I know that Red Ryder 10.3 has a keymap program that can map
nearly any *single* ASCII keycode to any key in the numeric
keypad, but I want to map strings of keys to a key in the
numeric keymap.  Emacs has just about used up all the single
keystrokes already, don't you know.

Questions:

1) Can Red Ryder do this and I just haven't figured it out?

2) Is there some other keymap program that I can layer on top
of Red Ryder to get this work out?

or (ecch!)

3) Is it simply that the "7" key on my numeric keypad and the
"7" key above the "y" key send the same keycode to the keyboard
poller, and thus cannot be distinguished by software at all?

Bill Nowlin -- Grad Student Ordinaire
nowlin@gramian.harvard.edu
Harvard Robotics Lab
Land of Dukakis and Deficits