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From: skappel@eta.unix.ETA.COM (Steve kappel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Needed: help with input mechanism (function keys)
Message-ID: <4172@eta.unix.ETA.COM>
Date: 2 Apr 89 16:35:20 GMT
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Organization: ETA Systems, Inc., St Paul, MN
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Has anyone figured out a way to customize NeWS so that each function key
can behave like 3?  I'm looking for a way to get many functions!

I'm thinking this could be done by using the state of the shift and control
keys.  Something like:

  unshifted     /FunctionF1
  shifted       /FunctionF1s
  controlled    /FunctionF1c

I've looked through UI.ps, liteUI.ps, sun3_keys.ps, etc.  I've also read the
NeWS 1.1 manuals.  The input mechanism is still beyond me :-(.

Or maybe somebody from Sun can tell me that this functionality will be
available in the released product (please say yes!).

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