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From: swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Help needed with xterm translations
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Date: 1 Feb 89 15:14:03 GMT
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>Problem:  I have "#override <Key>F1:string("something")\n
>and that works just peachy.  However, I can't seem to find a way to 
>specify something like: "<Shift><Key>F1:string("somethingelse")"

You probably don't really want this second translation binding; it's
not really legal (I'll have to check the code to see why there was
no message), but there is an almost-reasonable interpretation for it, vis:

"<Shift>" is an abbreviation for the specification "Shift<Key>", thus
the almost-reasonable interpretation is the two-event sequence
"Shift<Key>,<Key>F1".  You should have really gotten an error message
about the missing ",", but the implementation doesn't actually interpret
your specification this way anyway.  You can see the difference by
actually inserting the "," in your version -- I don't claim it's useful :-).

Any of the following will work as you probably expect:

*VT100.translations: #override \
	Shift<Key>F1:string("else") \n\
	<Key>F1:string("something")

*VT100.translations: #override \
	<Shift>F1:string("else") \n\
	<Key>F1:string("something")

*VT100.translations: #override \
	~Shift<Key>F1:string("something") \n\
	Shift<Key>F1:string("else")

*VT100.translations: #override \
	~Shift<Key>F1:string("something") \n\
	<Shift>F1:string("else")

The order in the first two versions is significant; since the event
"<Key>F1" allows any modifier state, it is crucial to first specify
the more specific event.  Since the last two versions explicitly
state the state of the Shift modifier in both bindings, the order
is not significant.

Enjoy!
-R