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From: swoodhead@SUN.COM (Simon Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: can xmodmap assign escape sequences to keys?
Message-ID: <8905310627.AA00818@sunaus.sun.oz>
Date: 31 May 89 21:26:26 GMT
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Please reply direct to George Michaelson at the address below, or to the
comp.windows.x newsgroup / xpert mailing list.

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Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: can xmodmap assign escape sequences to keys?
Organization: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

how do you use xmodmap or any other utility to assign arbitrary 
char-sequences per keystroke?

I'm trying to make an RT keyboards numeric keypad function as a vt100
would so that I can (yecch!) use EDT on VMS systems. This requires
num-lock as well as all the "sane" num-keys to be re-defined as DEC ESC
sequences.  The AOS4.3bsd utility pf (1) doesn't work within X because
a different keyboard driving mechanism is used.

the xmodmap documentation discusses single code replacement and overloading
under different contexts, but doesn't seem to show assigning a code sequence
to a keypress.

Pointers to documentation etc received with thanks..

	-George

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