Re (2): HOW2 macro-keys

[no.to...@gmail.com]

In article <he0vbv$pcb$1...@aioe.org>, pk <p...@pk.invalid> wrote:

> no.to...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > There must be a zillion other users too who'd like to just press one
> > key instead of typing " | grep " ..etc.
> >
> > So I want to ask not only how to do it, but also to analyse:
> > 1. why it's not commonly known,
> > 2. why it's not simply explained,
> > 3. why much of linux docos are so lame.
> --snip--
> > Now man loadkeys tells:
> > ] One can make function key F5 (on an ordinary PC keyboard) produce
> > ] the text `Hello!', and Shift+F5 `Goodbye!' using lines
> > ]
> > ] keycode 63 = F70 F71
> > ] string F70 = "Hello!"
> > ] string F71 = "Goodbye!"
> > which is confirmed; but leaves a lot unexplained.
> >
> > Q1 where/why does 'F70, F71' come in?
> >
> > Q2 how to do similar macro-string-keys under X?
>
> The kind of explanations you're looking for is not in the man, nor is what
> man pages are for. You're looking for something like a HOWTO or a specific
> document on Linux terminal/keyboard management. That's not what man pages
> are for.
That's why I chose:
Subject: HOW2 macro-keys
>
> In your specific case, you could have a look at documents like these:
>
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/index.html
> http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/kbd/scancodes.html
>
No! I want something written by a scientist, not a novelist.
Eg. "Each key's press and release is detected and mapped to xyz according
to files F1, F2, ...Fn. ..."

Sone one who knows how it works could give short answers to my short
Q1 & Q2 ?

== TIA.

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On 2009-11-20, Lew Pitcher wrote:
> I fixed some of those attributions for you...

I didn't think that could really be you, and I had intended to say
that.

...
> Again, this is all just RM yanking your chain, using my name to do it.
> Another part of his extortion attempt against me, I guess ;-)

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Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> Aragorn wrote:
>
>> Aside from that, GNU/Hurd is still under development,
>
> And I have it from reliable sources that it will be ready in just
> another 3484 years. And it will need just an 8-core machine to
> achieve C64 speeds

(OT) Back some 25+ years ago, I helped a friend write a 6502 hand
assembly programme stuffed in a BASIC REM statement, to clear the
screen. (BASIC graphic poking was a bit slow.)

Fantastic machine, too bad the convicted monopoly maintainer got a foot
hold and destroyed the home computer market, just as what is going on
with the netbook market and all non-standard non-Intel chipset stuff,
unfortunately.

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