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From: mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Mapping keys.
Message-ID: <9103270712.AA09645@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 27 Mar 91 07:12:58 GMT
Sender: tytso@athena.mit.edu (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
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> To re-map the numeric keypad from numbers to escape sequences, would
> you do it in the

> a: client
> b: window manager
> c: server
> d: all of the above
> e: none of the above
> f: a and b
> g: b and c
> h: a and c

Technically, the answer is a.  The client has to be convinced to
re-interpret the KeyPress event for the desired keycode as
corresponding to a whole string of characters instead of what it
normally would be.

Many clients (those based on Xt, typically) have a Translations
resource you can set which controls this; you could do something like

	fooclient*Translations: \
		<Key>KP_0: string(0x1b) string("KP0")

which would (if I have the syntax right - I never use this mechanism)
cause the keypad 0 key to turn into the string ESC K P 0 (ESC is 0x1b).

If you put such a resource in the resource manager, the server is
involved in that it stores the RESOURCE_MANAGER property, but that
hardly counts.

I don't know what your variant of emacs (you don't say what emacs
you're using) does for this, so I can't offer specific advice.  If the
translations mechanism doesn't work, I'd have to start reading
documentation, or if you have source poking around in it.

					der Mouse

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