kbdcontrol -f and escape sequences
Dan MacMillan
flowers at users.sourceforge.net
Sun Mar 14 07:42:48 PST 2004
Excellent! That does it. Thank you very much for your help.
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Danny MacMillan
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Seaman
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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