From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Sending keystrokes to the OS Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:17:01 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87d4c3dgcy.fsf@galatea.local> References: <867i2ckkui.fsf@timbral.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238110909 16548 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2009 23:41:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:41:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 27 00:43:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LmzE1-0007y4-PY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:43:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35596 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmzCe-000567-Mj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:41:40 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-a.proxad.net!nnrp16-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:MmNlMTBiODgyNTRjM2QyM2VlM2NiMTM1ZTM0NTYwNjNhOTc1OGQyYQ== Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Mar 2009 00:17:03 MET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1238109423 news-2.free.fr 5797 88.182.134.169:58906 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168022 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:63312 Archived-At: Evans Winner writes: > I don't suppose there's a way to send arbitrary keystrokes > to the OS from Emacs? -- like, as a way to use Emacs as a > kind of keyboard macro server for the window manager? If > not, I don't suppose anyone knows how to do something like > that with Clisp or sbcl? The point being that I would like > to find a way to write little macros I can activate from any > application using some kind of prefix key combination, > maybe, (and in some kind of lispy way, preferably). I think > with stumpwm I could do it, but alas, I am not using an OS > (in this context) that is compatible with stumpwm. Any > pointers would be useful. Thanks. http://www.sandklef.com/xnee/ -- __Pascal Bourguignon__