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From: kent@sunfs3.camex.uucp (Kent Borg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Slick keymapping and Red Ryder 10.3?
Keywords: QuicKeys macros emacs keyboard remapping
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Date: 20 Nov 89 17:36:26 GMT
References: <3198@husc6.harvard.edu>
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In article <3198@husc6.harvard.edu> nowlin@gramian.harvard.edu (Bill Nowlin) writes:
>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.

Buy QuicKeys.  It is commercial software from CE Software.
MacConnection lists it for $65.  It is worth it.  

It will let you redefine and remap galore.  Yes, it will let you have
a multicharacter escape sequence for a single keystroke, yes it knows
the difference between the keypad and the rest of the keyboard (at
least on any ADB keyboard).  Though it will let you get many
characters of text for a given keystroke (say, an escape sequence), it
is not a good overall macro facility.  It is very cumbersome when you
want to string together a sequence of actions.

It will also let you decide whether a particular key mapping is to be
in effect only when a particular program is running (like your VT100
mappings) or should always work (like the undo/cut/copy/paste keys on
the big keyboard).

Unlike MacroMaker, it is very good about *not* breaking other
programs, *not* crashing itself, and *not* corrupting it's own data.

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