From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Evans Winner <thorne@timbral.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sending keystrokes to the OS
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:25:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50903261625s1878493ft6e4d441a5b5283a6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867i2ckkui.fsf@timbral.net>
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Evans Winner <thorne@timbral.net> wrote:
> 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.
There is nothing like that in Emacs. If you want to write something
yourself then look for accessibility API:s.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-26 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-26 21:58 Sending keystrokes to the OS Evans Winner
2009-03-26 23:06 ` Peter Dyballa
2009-03-26 23:17 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-03-26 23:25 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
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