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On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 11:18:42PM -0700, Dan MacMillan wrote:

> I'm having some trouble using kbdcontrol to redefine function keys to
> strings that include escape sequences.  For example, suppose I want to
> redefine "F1" to be equivalent to pressing the left arrow key twice in a
> row.  I naiively thought this would work:
>=20
>     kbdcontrol -f 1 "\033[D\033[D"

Try:

    kbdcontrol -f 1 `printf "\033[D\033[D"`

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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