lipton@halleys.UUCP (04/06/87)
Thanks for the responses to my question about defining VT240 function keys under ULTRIX. The most useful suggestion was from Bruce Wisentaner, who suggested that I "alias" the character sequences produced by the function keys. I have taken that idea and expanded it a bit. I have created a file called "defkey", below: # echo -n alias $argv[1] \'echo >> ~/.defkeys echo ' "^[[1A$prompt' $argv[2] '"' \;$argv[2]\' >> ~/.defkeys To use it, I type "defkey", the press the key I want to define, and then type the definition, in double quotes if it is more than one word. For example, to define the FIND key to do "ls -lt" I type defkey ^[[1~ "ls -lt" This will append an entry to a file called .defkeys in my home directory. Then I need the statement "source .defkeys" in my .login file to activate the definitions. Then, whenever I type FIND and carriage return, first I will see the escape sequence [1~, then "ls -lt" will be written over that, and then "ls -lt" will be executed. It's not as nice as VMS, but it's better than nothing. -- Gary Lipton - Massachusetts Microelectronics Center ## ## 2 ##### lipton@m2c.org (CSNET and Internet with MX support) ### ### ## lipton%m2c.org@relay.cs.net (Internet) ## # ## ## {harvard,bu-cs,frog,ulowell}!halleys!lipton (UUCP) ## ## #####