Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 14:51:41 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Dan MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kbdcontrol -f and escape sequences Message-ID: <20040314145141.GD9984@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABOEMBCHAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net> References: <FGEIJLCPFDNMGDOKNBABOEMBCHAA.flowers@users.sourceforge.net>
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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:
>
> kbdcontrol -f 1 "\033[D\033[D"
Try:
kbdcontrol -f 1 `printf "\033[D\033[D"`
Cheers,
Matthew
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