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From: RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU (Robert Scheifler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Where did the NULL key go?
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Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 08:24:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 08:24:00 1987
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You can get NUL via control-@, but various people (including me) like to
see it via control-space as well.  I have tentatively made the following
change to lib/X/XKeyBind.c to allow this; in the absence of extreme
flames, it might even stay this way.


*** /tmp/,RCSt1018673	Tue Sep 29 08:17:57 1987
--- XKeyBind.c	Tue Sep 29 07:57:10 1987
***************
*** 1,6 ****
  #include "copyright.h"
  
! /* $Header: XKeyBind.c,v 11.35 87/09/08 20:17:55 toddb Exp $ */
  /* Copyright 1985, 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology */
  
  /* Beware, here be monsters (still under construction... - JG */
--- 1,6 ----
  #include "copyright.h"
  
! /* $Header: XKeyBind.c,v 11.36 87/09/29 07:56:36 rws Exp $ */
  /* Copyright 1985, 1987, Massachusetts Institute of Technology */
  
  /* Beware, here be monsters (still under construction... - JG */
***************
*** 12,18 ****
  #include "keysym.h"
  #include <stdio.h>
  
! #define HAS_CTRL(c)  ((c) >= '@' && (c) <= '\177')
  
  struct XKeytrans {
  	struct XKeytrans *next;/* next on list */
--- 12,18 ----
  #include "keysym.h"
  #include <stdio.h>
  
! #define HAS_CTRL(c)  (((c) >= '@' && (c) <= '\177') || (c) == ' ')
  
  struct XKeytrans {
  	struct XKeytrans *next;/* next on list */