Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:02:44 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keymapping continued ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907121601370.66634-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199907121824.MAA43366@harmony.village.org>
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Perfect, slowly putting it together. One thing that I didn't find in the
man page, and am wondering if its just somethign I did wrong, but does
ordering matter?
I put in, first time through:
<KeyPress> F1: ...
Shift <KeyPress> F1: ...
And it Shift-F1 and F1 both gave the same answers...
But, if I reverse it, it works as expected/hoped...
Mistake on my part, or normal?
thanks...
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907121449570.66634-100000@thelab.hub.org>
> The Hermit Hacker writes:
> : I need to build a keyboard map such that:
> :
> : F1 == ESC OP
> : F2 == ESC OQ
> : Shift-F1 == ESC [31~
> : Shift-F2 == ESC [32~
>
> Why not do this with Xterm translations? Generally speaking xmodmap
> and friends are poor choices to even think about doing this with since
> they don't translate function keys to escape sequences. The
> applications do that, if they want. The only time you're likely to
> need them is in a terminal emulation situation, which makes xterm the
> logical place to do this.
>
> : Hopefully this makes a bit more sense?
>
> Yes. It does. You should use the translations resource for XTerm to
> accomplish this. From my .Xdefaults file:
>
> XTerm*vt100*translations: #override \n\
> Alt <KeyPress> y: insert-selection( PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0 ) \n\
> Meta <KeyPress> y: insert-selection( PRIMARY, CUT_BUFFER0 ) \n\
> <KeyPress> BackSpace: string( 0x7f )\n
>
> is one example. It allows me to "map" the BackSpace key into a DEL
> character (which in my religion is the right thing to do, your
> religion might vary), as well as giving me an easy way to paste, at
> least into xterms when I don't have a middle mouse button.
>
> This could easily be expanded to include all the vt220 keys that your
> boss/coworker needs in xterm.
>
> Check out the xterm man page for a more complete example, including
> ways of mapping different keymaps at the touch of a key.
>
> Warner
>
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