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From: carlton@aldebaran (Mike Carlton)
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Subject: Re: Keyboard mappings
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Date: 4 Feb 91 18:50:19 GMT
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In article <130149@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes:
>Are keyboard mappings documented anywhere?  I'm talking about things like
>"/NextLibrary/Keyboards/Italian.keymapping".  How are they created, and how
>are they used?  Can one change keymappings on the fly (while switching
>languages in a word processor, for example), or is the global Preferences
>application the only way to change them?
>
>Jacob
>--
>Jacob Gore		Jacob@Gore.Com			boulder!gore!jacob

Well, they're created by the Keyboard application (it's on the extended
release, but not the base release).  However, I found Keyboard to be 
pretty useless for what I wanted to do.

I would like to assign the pipe '|' to shift-delete (bringing it on the main
keyboard where it belongs).  Keyboard won't let me do it.  It says that
Esc and Delete are "FF Not Defined" and shift-Esc and shift-Delete are 
"00 Not Defined".

Well, obviously all of these except shift-Delete are defined.  It seems like 
I should be able to define shift-Delete as well.  Can anyone tell me how to 
do this?  Anyone have the format of the keymappings?  Or do I have to reverse
engineer them?

Thanks and cheers,
mike

Mike Carlton	carlton@cs.berkeley.edu