Re: wanted: keyboard macros in X

[Eric Mangold <teratorn world-net net>]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:45:09 -0500, Brandon Craig Rhodes 
<brandon rhodesmill org> wrote:

> I am interested in creating a keyboard macro where, say, the F5 key
> would type the string "the" into whichever window currently had the
> keyboard focus.  I can think of various approaches:
>
>  (1) Write a sawfish lisp function that generates the "t", "h", and
>      "e" key events, and bind the function to F5 through the sawfish
>      keymap.  But, having read the sawfish manual, I am unsure how to
>      insert events into the X event queue.

Sounds like synthesize-event is the function you're looking for.

	-Eric