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From: jim@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Jim Fulton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XRebindKeysym / Why Modifier Keysyms? / add string() to Xaw?
Message-ID: <8811071558.AA12470@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU>
Date: 7 Nov 88 15:58:00 GMT
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Organization: X Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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XRebindKeysym does not do global rebinding of strings to keysyms.  It is only
used to change the local bindings (i.e. the tables used by XLookupString).
The xmodmap program is used to change or display the following:

	o  the mapping from keycodes (which are server-dependent, arbitrary 
	   numbers correspond to physical keys; sort of like make/break codes)
	   to keysyms (symbolic constants representing the function
	   corresponding to the etching that appears on the key).

	o  the list of keycodes that the server should keep track of and report
	   as modifier bits (e.g. "when the key code 85 is down, set the shift
	   bit in event modifier masks").

	o  the mapping from physical pointer buttons to logical button
	   constants (e.g. Button1, Button2, etc.)


It does not deal with translating keysyms to strings at all.  If your
application wants actual strings (i.e. if it is manipulating text), you can use
the routines

	XmuLookupLatin1
	XmuLookupLatin2
	XmuLookupLatin3
	XmuLookupLatin4
	XmuLookupKana
	XmuLookupArabic
	XmuLookupCyrillic
	XmuLookupGreek
	XmuLookupAPL
	XmuLookupHebrew
	XLookupString

The R3 xterm uses the Translation Manager in the X Toolkit so that it can do
arbitrary rebinding of events.  The hope is that someone [else] will fix emacs
to do the same thing soon.  Ideally, it would be done by identifying the 
code in xterm that would be useful in emacs and moving it to Xmu.

Jim