Re: Brief keybindings (newbie)

[Günter Milde <milde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 09:46:07AM -0700, Steve Corwin wrote:
> Günter Milde wrote:
> >
> >I think, that by replacing the hard-coded strings in brief.sl with the
> >appropriate Key_* variables from keydefs.sl, much can be won and it should
> >run smoothly with xjed on a IPMPC (say with Linux).
> >
> >E.g.
> >
> >- setkey ("brief_home", "\xE0G");	       %  Home
> >- setkey ("brief_home", "Ow");	       %  Home
> >... 
> >+ requires("keydefs");
> >+ setkey ("brief_home", Key_Home);
> >...
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions, Günter.  Let's see...
> - I don't have keydefs.sl, but I have /usr/share/jed/lib/keydefs.slc (I 
> installed the jed debian package).

You can install the jed-sl package to get the library sources.
 
> - "requires ("keydefs")" caused "S-Lang Error: Undefined Name: requires 
> is undefined" so I changed to "require ("keydefs");", which got rid of 
> the error.

My fault, sorry and thanks for the hint.

> - with those changes Home and End keys work correctly in xjed but not in 
> jed.

This is probabely a problem with the terminal.
Diagnose steps:
  - do you use jed on xterm, rxvt, ... or the Console?
  - what is the value of the TERMINAL environment variable?
  - what keystrings do you get with M-x quoted_insert Home/End)?
  - how do these differ from the Key_Home/Key_End variable?
  - Do Home/End keys work in other modes?
 
> - F5 doesn't work in either. 

Well, I suppose there are even more. I just gave an example which is by far
not complete...

> - This technique seems promising, so I just grabbed the regular jed 
> distribution and had a look in keydefs.sl.  I don't see anything that 
> would distinguish the plus sign on the numeric keypad from the plus sign 
> on the equals key (U.S. keyboard layout).  Does anybody know if jed can 
> map those two keys differently?

The problem is not within jed but the terminal program (or X). Jed uses only
the keystring sent and thus cannot distinguish + and KP-+ if both of them
send "+".

Once the new xjed version extends x_set_keysym for keysyms outside the
range of `0xFF00' to `0xFFFF', the problem can be solved at least for xjed.
There should be no problem under (Win)DOS.

Günter

-- 
Milde at ife.et.tu-dresden.de


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