rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (05/31/89)
You can't do what you want with xmodmap. It's for assigning keysyms to keys, not for assigning strings to keys. Strings are very application specific. Within a terminal emulator, the emulator must provide this capability. The MIT R3 xterm provides this capability, using translations and the "string" action routine. See the xterm man page. If you are using some other terminal emulator, this capability might or might not be provided, and might be provided in some other form.
swoodhead@SUN.COM (Simon Woodhead) (06/01/89)
Please reply direct to George Michaelson at the address below, or to the
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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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