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From: cs132087@brunix (Jeff Baum)
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Subject: Re: Making Word feel like emacs?
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Date: 7 May 89 19:51:21 GMT
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In article <GHH.89May4105117@thought.princeton.edu> ghh@thought.princeton.edu (Gilbert Harman) writes:
>I don't see how to use Quickeys to get a SEQUENCE of
>(possibly modified) keystrokes to stand for a command, e.g.
><escape> followed by f to stand for the command "move
>forward one word."  Is there a way to use Quickeys or some
>other system to bind a key like <escape> to a complex
>conditional command: "Press a key, if it is "f" then go
>forward a word, if it is "b" then go back a word, ..."?


You have practically answered your own question.  In QuicKeys,
there is a number of things you can define, one of which is
a SEQUENCE.  Therefore, first define the escape key (as anything,
or even leave undefined), and then use a sequence to first
choose the escape, and then to choose some keystroke.

A sequence of keystrokes can be defined thorought the
"define text" part of QuickKeys.  The control key can be
simulated by the ^, i.e. control-d would be "^d" (without
quotes...)  I'm not sure if you can define ESC through this
part, but if you can, then you wouldn't even need to define
the ESC keystroke.


Jeff Baum
cs132087@cs.brown.edu