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From: aw@jello.bae.bellcore.com (Andrew Wason)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Problems using xterm "translations": Shifted and unshifted equal
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.235915.9053@bellcore.bellcore.com>
Date: 28 Mar 91 23:59:15 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.214211*Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no>
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In article <1991Mar27.214211*Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no>, Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) writes:
>XTerm*VT100.extraKeymap.translations: #override\
>	<Key>x:		string("A")	\n\
>	Shift<Key>x:	string("B")
>
>I simply want an unshifted x to insert 'A', and a shifted X to insert "B".
>The problem is that only the first definition is used by xterm. I always
>get 'A', both shifted and unshifted. If I place the line with Shift -> B
>first, I always get B in both shifted and unshifted positions. Furthermore,
>in either of these cases I get the same character also for ctrl-x!

Try:

XTerm*VT100.extraKeymap.translations: #override\
       !Shift<Key>x:   string("B")\n
       None<Key>x:     string("A")

Andrew

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Andrew Wason                                       Bell Communications Research
aw@bae.bellcore.com                                Piscataway, NJ
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