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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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Thomas Stratford <tstratford@dragon-wing.net> writes:

> My thought was that this could be implemented in the keyboard driver
> stack, and then do a simple substitution when a hot key is triggered.
> Is this possible? Is there already an implementation of something like
> this in the Linux world? Does this sound crazy? :)

See "man loadkeys"
The existing keymaps can already expand keys to multiple characters.

-Andi

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