RE: key themes (cont.)

[Paul Hepworth <phepworth s-vision com>]

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> From: 	Joel Dillon[SMTP:emily@cornholio.new.ox.ac.uk]
> Reply To: 	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Sent: 	Saturday, February 14, 1998 4:34 AM
> To: 	tromey@cygnus.com
> Subject: 	Re: key themes (cont.)
> 
> > 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.
> 
Interesting, but not really useful in our current keybinding context (I
don't want Ctrl-K bound to the TEXT "select next buffer."  I want it
bound to the symbol "select next buffer."

A little key^H^H^Haction-symbol binding database linked into gnome libs
is the answer, I think.  (And it's coming RSN.)


Paul