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From: obh@IFI.UIO.NO
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: prefix-character for gnuemacs
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Date: 6 Feb 88 21:36:34 GMT
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	A student here at the University of Oslo  uses Gnuemacs.  He has
	a special problem: He can only use one of his fingers; thus he's
	unable to type control-characters.

	He  wants a  character  he can  type   to  `prefix`  the  next
	character as a control-character. (He uses a vt100 and a SUN).

	I  can imagine  several solutions to   this  problem, but none
	of them are really elegant. Has anybody found the `right` way?

	The solutions I come up with are:

	Put such a control-prefix-character into every keymap pointing
	to a special function which either:

		1. Read the next character, controllify it and parse
			the rest of the input (ie: rebuild the 
			command-loop in lisp) with offset from keymap.

			or

		2. Read the next character, controllify that character,
			appends it to the (this-command-keys), and let
			emacs read this again, thus using emacs own
			command loop. This may be achieved by rewriting
			Gnuemacs unread_command_char to be a pointer to
			a  string, and let a new function operate on
			this string.


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