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From: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Mapping keys in SunView
Keywords: Windows
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Date: 8 May 89 17:49:16 GMT
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> But, it would be even more helpful if I could map unused keys (the L, F,
> and R keys) in the SunView environment.  I figure that you should be able
> to do this because SunView catches L5 and L7 and does special things with
> them.  Does anyone know how to map these keys as macros in the SunView
> windows environment?

You can create a file called .ttyswrc in your home directory which binds
character sequences to function keys.  Here is part of mine:

	mapi	L2	^Xe
	mapi	L3	^X(
	mapi	L4	^X)

	mapi	F1	\Ej
	mapi	F2	\E(
	mapi	F3	\E3

See the man page for shelltool for more info.  This bindings apply to any
tty window created in SunView.

Bug alert: If you create a .ttyswrc, you will change the way in which
function key events are delivered to event interposers on tty windows.  To
wit: if a function key has a .ttyswrc entry, the true function event
(shift F2, or whatever) will be delivered to your interposer.  If no
.ttyswrc entry exists, the ASCII escape sequence (ESC [ 2 0 3 z, or
whatever) is delivered instead.  For reliable handling of function events,
your programs should be able to parse and translate ASCII sequences into
function key events.  This is a gross bug in the notifier.  The latest
version of tooltool (available from either the sun-spots archives on
titan.rice.edu, or via anonymous ftp from trantor.harris-atd.com
(26.13.0.98) in /pub/suntools/tooltool) has a module called func_fix.c
which will perform function key translation for any interposer.

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[[ Secondary bug alert (this one in the documentation).  The manual page
for shelltool(1) refers to an on-line example ttyswrc file called
"/usr/lib/ttyswrc".  If you can find it on your 4.0.1 system, then you're
one up on me.  Our system doesn't have one.  --wnl ]]