re key definitions in emacs x in article apr midway uchicago edu ajaffe oddjob uchicago edu andrew jaffe writes i use emacs and i want to customize my keyboard better when i set up stuff in my emacs with a keymap and define keys i can only access certain of the keys on my x terminal s keyboard i can t get e g f home end pgup pgdn they all seem to have either the same or no keycode i have a feeling this can t be fixed in emacs itself but that i need to do some xmodmap stuff can someone help me it is actually worse than you think i have the same problem and have given up emacs has an internal table somewhere which defines what keys it will accept and this table is system dependent i use a sun from my hp and cannot get shift pageup to work xmodmap is not sufficient or at least i haven t worked out how to make it work however i can get ordinary pageup and shift cursorright to work and i do some customised things with them note that the emacs on my hp has no problem and i am using exactly the same xmodmap and emacs configuration nick maclaren university of cambridge computer laboratory new museums site pembroke street cambridge cb qg england email nmm cus cam ac uk tel fax
