From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Evans Winner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Sending keystrokes to the OS Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:58:13 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <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 1238107256 6139 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2009 22:40:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:40:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 26 23:42:14 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 1LmyH7-00066D-T9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:42:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38711 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmyFk-00089o-TD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:40:48 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!news2.euro.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 4xmhsRr5Aeb6D0t2Thq8sQ.user.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:58:01 +0000 (UTC) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.7.7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xxcd4QHOXvbpda+xGAAgPT5moF0= sha1:neD+fYcDQIuDxti/i63Jqq7ke4I= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168020 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:63308 Archived-At: 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.