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From: dgreen@squid.cs.ucla.edu (Dan R. Greening)
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Subject: XRebindKeysym / Why Modifier Keysyms? / add string() to Xaw?
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Date: 6 Nov 88 08:02:08 GMT
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I tried to find some utility that would allow me to rebind keysyms into
strings, so I could use emacs again.  Nothing exists that I can find,
and the documentation on the Keysym/Keycode stuff is obscure.  

Nonetheless, I think I figured it out, and I've added some code to 
xmodmap to perform XRebindKeysym.  Here's what I really don't understand:
Why is the modifierlist input to XRebindKeysym a list of KeySyms?  What
happens if there is no KeySym associated with a modifier?  Why not use
the shifted modifier numbers instead?

This whole problem might go away if there was some way to insert arbitrary
strings using Text widget.  Shouldn't the "string()" action in xterm be a 
part of the Text widget as well?  Or perhaps a part of the Core widget
class?

Or am I missing something, and X11R3 has some easy way to rebind keys to 
strings?

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