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From: kochhar@endor.harvard.edu (Sandeep Kochhar)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Text widget question (Xaw)
Keywords: X11R4, Xt, Xaw
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Date: 13 Jan 90 05:08:00 GMT
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Organization: Aiken Computation Lab Harvard, Cambridge, MA
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Is there any way to modify the translation table of a text widget
(through resources) so that if I select something (e.g. a word by
double clicking), and then type a character, the selection gets
deleted and replaced by the character (similar to macintosh applications)?

I tried the following (which doesn't work, though came close in some ways
especially under R3):

xedit*Text.Translations: #override \
        <Key>Right: forward-character() \n\
        <Key>Left:  backward-character() \n\
        <Key>Down:  next-line() \n\
        <Key>Up:  previous-line() \n\
        <Key>Delete:  delete-previous-character() \n\
        <Key>BackSpace:  delete-previous-character() \n\
        <Key>Linefeed:  newline-and-indent() \n\
        <Key>Return:  newline() \n\
        None<Key> : kill-selection() insert-char()  \n\

(The last line None<Key> was supposed to do the trick...)


Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks



Sandeep Kochhar
(617) 495-3988              mail: kochhar@harvard.harvard.edu
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