From: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
To: bvraghav@iitk.ac.in (B.V. Raghav)
Cc: help-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to change the keyboard mapping?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 14:01:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1laqj8m.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mvkg21pu.fsf@ram.bvr.dp.lan> (B. V. Raghav's message of "Sat, 13 Aug 2016 19:46:45 +0530")
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bvraghav@iitk.ac.in (B.V. Raghav) writes:
> Hi,
>
>> How can I map my alpha-ENTER to be the same as my numerical-ENTER please?
>
> I checked for the keycode using xev in my terminal
>
> The two enter keys produce this line in their respective output:
>
> state 0x0, keycode 36 (keysym 0xff0d, Return), same_screen YES,
> state 0x0, keycode 104 (keysym 0xff8d, KP_Enter), same_screen YES,
>
> `C-h k <kp-enter>' provides the key binding in current mode. Then I run
> `M-: (local-set-key (kbd "<kp-enter>") (lambda () (interactive) (message
> "KP Enter pressed")))' and press <kp-enter>. It works.
>
> So I think there are two ways I should proceed
>
> 1. Explicitly map <kp-enter> to the same command as <return> in the
> particular mode I am talking about.
>
> 2. Or, use Xmodmap to simulate a return globally. I should append into
> the .Xmodmap file, and invoke it in the .xinitrc
>
> keycode 104 = Return
>
> For more details on xmodmap, `M-x man RET xmodmap RET', and
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xmodmap
>
>
> There should be more elegant ways to do the job, but this is FWIW.
>
Thanks for this fulsome reply BV. Its now all working perfectly.
Thanks
Sharon.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-12 22:11 How to change the keyboard mapping? Sharon Kimble
2016-08-13 0:02 ` John Mastro
2016-08-13 0:35 ` Sharon Kimble
2016-08-13 2:10 ` John Mastro
2016-08-14 12:28 ` Robert Thorpe
2016-08-15 12:59 ` Sharon Kimble
2016-08-15 12:59 ` Sharon Kimble
2016-08-15 17:37 ` John Mastro
2016-08-13 14:16 ` B.V. Raghav
2016-08-15 13:01 ` Sharon Kimble [this message]
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