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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
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Subject: Re: Help! I need an interrupt!!
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Date: Sat, 2-May-87 16:57:02 EDT
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Just a few thoughts:

I assume that tcsh (a tops-20-ish version of csh with completion and
ability to hang things on keys) is not sufficient? If you want it to
always be there then no, if you only need it at shell level then yes.
Of course in that case you could probably use aliases for a lot of
things if you can bear to hit enter, not quite what you want either.

I also won't mention that window systems like X allow arbitrary
definitions of key caps (eg. I have keys that send things like ESC->
and ESC-< for you know who), ok that's not sufficient.

GNU Emacs has a terminal emulator (a little more like a terminal than
just a shell in a window) and the normal (did I say that?) keystroke
hooks would work here.

The other thing which would be fairly straightforward is get a copy of
the UCB script command (dribble or photo) and hack it up to be more
like an input version of crtsty, it's trapping everything and running
it back thru a pty so anything would be quite possible. This is the
most general solution.

Hope it helps.

	-Barry Shein, Boston University