[comp.windows.x] keyboard bindings vs xrdb

lamy@ai.utoronto.ca (Jean-Francois Lamy) (09/13/88)

Are there fundamental reasons keyboard mappings could not be handled
as xrdb defaults, so that once could specify for example

xterm*controlMetaShift-A-binding: "hi there in xterm"
*controlMetaShift-A-binding: "hi there from somewhere"

to define what control-meta-shift-A would send in and out of xterm, say?

Jean-Francois Lamy               lamy@ai.utoronto.ca, uunet!ai.utoronto.ca!lamy
AI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4

swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ralph R. Swick) (09/13/88)

> Are there fundamental reasons keyboard mappings could not be handled
> as xrdb defaults,

No reason at all; small matter of code :-)
fixed in R3. (really!)