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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Multikey maps from xmodmap?
Message-ID: <9003050635.AA04312@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Date: 5 Mar 90 06:35:53 GMT
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> Can xmodmap be used to generate multikey events from the function
> keys?

No.

> I have used xmodmap to map backspace and delete keys suitably, but
> the manual page does not clearly indicate how to map a string
> ":w[return]" to way the F1 key, or ":!make[return]" to the F2 key.
> Can you do this easily in R3?  In R4?

Clients have to do this sort of thing themselves.  Unfortunately, there
is no way provided to make a mapping like this across all clients.
Individual clients have individual ways - generally through resources
like xterm's translations (or is that Translations?) resource - but
nothing for everybody.

I'm trying to come up with something to address this problem, but don't
have a whole lot of time to dwell on it.  If and when I do, I'll
implement it and try it out, and if it turns out well I'll post it for
everyone to pick apart :-).

					der Mouse

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