ml@ecerl2.ncsu.edu (09/21/89)
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Recently I installed emacs (18.55) on a HP9000s300 system.
Everything is fine except that I'd like to be able to make all the
extra keys on my keyboard do something, instead of being wholly
nonfunctional.
The question is, how do I get these keys to send sequences to Emacs?
The only extra keys which seem to do anything are the arrow keys, and
that only because someone hardcoded them into the source code (very very
ugly) -- translating them into ^F ^B ^N ^P.
It seems that there ought to be some way to get Emacs to load an alternate
keymap (doesn't this ability exist on X10 systems?), or a least a way to
make emacs do it at runtime (perhaps an elisp hook to call XRebindKeysym()
from my .emacs file).
Is there?
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How can I fix emacs so that I can activate the help facility from some
other key sequence while retaining the behavior it currently has when
you type ^H? [why on earth is ^H bound to 'help' ????]. Of course,
it's no problem to change the binding of ^H, nor is it a problem to
bind another key sequence to the help command; it is just that the help
command seems to behave differently if invoked from some sequence
besides ^H.
Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on these topics...
Mark
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