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From: janssen@parc.xerox.com (Bill Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Autorepeat key problems with X11R4
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Date: 15 Jun 90 00:56:59 GMT
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In-reply-to: casey@gauss.llnl.gov's message of 14 Jun 90 06:32:52 GMT

>    Maybe something like ``xset sm <ServerMessage>'' where <ServerMessage>
>  is a string which is to be sent to the server to be interpreted by it.
>  With such an extention it would be trivial to tell the Sun server you
>  wanted it to start autorepeating after 300 miliseconds and to autorepeat
>  every 20 miliseconds via ``xset sm autorepeat=300/20'' or something
>  similar.

I think that what you wind up proposing is a general escape mechanism
that allows server vendors to implement vendor-specific extension languages
in the server, no two of which need be alike, which presents a read-eval
interface via `xset sm'.

This seems so dangerous to standardization, portability, etc., that
I'd hate to see it.

Bill
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