Re: KeyPress events in Emacs' X interface

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From: Alan M. Carroll
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 1990 18:21

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In article <1377@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu>, breck@STAR.ECS.UMASS.EDU (Liam Breck) writes:
> This is really a future design suggestion rather than a bug report...
>  [ ... Passing X KeySyms directly to Lisp ... ]

This is a good idea, but as you mention, it would require major work.
My understanding is that V19 will support a generalized input scheme,
where the input objects are Lisp Objects, not just characters. Given
this (a large given), doing as suggest would be easy. I have looked at
this, but the dependecies are many. Just dealing with keymaps would be
a nightmare, to say the least.

-- 
Alan M. Carroll                "It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy.
Epoch Development Team          I'll get a saw."
CS Grad / U of Ill @ Urbana    ...{ucbvax,pur-ee,convex}!cs.uiuc.edu!carroll

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