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From: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: ESC on ds3100 keyboard: how to rebind?
Message-ID: <26921644.22196@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 4 Jul 90 16:16:04 GMT
References: <1156@psych.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: iglesias@orion.oac.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <1156@psych.stanford.edu> connie@psych.Stanford.EDU (Constance Stillinger) writes:
>I would be very grateful if someone would email me the way to cause
>emacs (18.55) to understand that I have remapped  the tilde, wedge,
>comma and dot keys so that ESC is in the upper left-hand corner, etc.

I use xmodmap in my .X11Startup file to remap the keyboard and emacs
works just fine.  My .xmodmaprc file is included at the end of this message.
I invoke xmodmap with:

  xmodmap .xmodmaprc

The .xmodmaprc file puts < and > over , and ., puts ~ and ` where < and >
used to be, and puts escape where ~/` were (upper left of the keyboard).
I popped the keycaps for </> and ~/` and switched them so it's a little
closer to reality.  I also switch caps lock and control because I prefer
the control key closer to the other keys.

It's pretty entertaining watching someone try to use my system.  :-)


Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine
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keysym comma = comma less
keysym period = period greater
keysym quoteleft = Escape Escape
keycode 201 = quoteleft asciitilde
remove Lock = Caps_Lock
remove Control = Control_L
keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock
keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L
add Lock = Caps_Lock
add Control = Control_L