Re: key themes (cont.)

[Joel Dillon <emily cornholio new ox ac uk>]

> So as you can see, keysyms still correspond to a relatively low-level
> operation: that of pressing a key.  As far as I can tell there is no
> way to tell X to map a sequence of keycodes onto a keysym (unless the
> keycodes include modifier keys, like shift); this means that Emacs
> keybindings could never be emulated at this level.

  A given keycode can be given an arbitrary sequence of (I think) ascii
characters; there's stuff in the O'Reilly Xlib book which mentions
using this to bind strings to function keys.

	Jo