From: David Gadbois
Subject: Re: Complaining about "ugly UNIX syntax" ...
Date: 
Message-ID: <3265j7$aii@peaches.cs.utexas.edu>
Ed Gamble <···@hip.atr.co.jp> wrote:
>
>Well, I rebind my Sun 'control' key to produce 'delete'  Nobody else
>understands why ... but they all avoid my workstation.

And don't forget the critical step of putting the parens where they
ought to be:

xmodmap - <<EOF
keysym bracketleft = parenleft  braceleft
keysym bracketright = parenright braceright
keysym parenleft = 9 bracketleft
keysym parenright = 0 bracketright
EOF

--David Gadbois
From: Chad J. Woodford
Subject: Re: Complaining about "ugly UNIX syntax" ...
Date: 
Message-ID: <328a4u$ao2@library.erc.clarkson.edu>
In article ···@peaches.cs.utexas.edu, ·······@cs.utexas.edu (David Gadbois) writes:
>Ed Gamble <···@hip.atr.co.jp> wrote:
>>
>>Well, I rebind my Sun 'control' key to produce 'delete'  Nobody else
>>understands why ... but they all avoid my workstation.
>
>And don't forget the critical step of putting the parens where they
>ought to be:
>
>xmodmap - <<EOF
>keysym bracketleft = parenleft  braceleft
>keysym bracketright = parenright braceright
>keysym parenleft = 9 bracketleft
>keysym parenright = 0 bracketright
>EOF
>
>--David Gadbois

Don't you mean the following?

keysym bracketleft = parenleft braceleft
keysym bracketright = parenright braceright
keysym 9 = 9 bracketleft
keysym 0 = 0 bracketright

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