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From: allan@svax.cs.cornell.edu (James Allan)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Prefixes for function keys
Keywords: prefix,keys
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Date: 31 Mar 89 20:29:58 GMT
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Reply-To: allan@cs.cornell.edu (James Allan)
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This is my first posting to this group and I've only read the group
for the first time this morning.  Consequently, I can only hope that
this is an appropriate request and that it isn't one of those "oh boy,
we've heard THIS one 783 times before" requests.  If so, please set me
straight and I'll do penance by using vi or something....

I'm a gnu-emacs novice who wants to set things up so that I can use
the function keys on my Sun3/60 under X11.  The keys generate a
sequence of the form "<esc>[123z" where "123" can be pretty much any
number.  I've looked around at keymaps and Lisp vectors and other such
stuff and it seems like MAYBE I could figure out how to do it (if it
can be done), but since Lisp and I aren't great buddies, I figure it'd
be a tremendous chore.

So, the question of the day is: Can it be done?  If so, has anyone
done it and is that person willing to share some code?  If it can be
done, but no one has done it, can someone point me toward useful
documentation or somesuch?

Thanks in advance for the help!

			-- james allan
			   allan@cs.cornell.edu