Question: key bindings and acceptance of automatic key presses

Hi Everyone:

As far as I know maple has no way to define key bindings for it's actions. 

I would however like to be able to navigate around the worksheet using hjkl keys - namely alt+j would be equivalent to down_arrow, and so on. I find that I spend more time reaching for the arrow keys or the mouse than writing useful code (I might be exaggerating slightly here ;) ). I can implement this behavior easily using my window manager (FVWM) - meaning the window manager intercepts alt+j and passes a "fake keypress" of down_arrow to the application - but this does not work in Maple. It works fine in firefox, xterm, gvim, etc... but not in Maple.

I realize this is a long shot, but does anyone know how to force maple to accept synthetic key events? The problem here probably lies with java, but maybe someone knows a workaround? If not, is there a hack to get these key mappings to work in Maple? (I would really like to work in the graphical interface as it's easier to interact with plots - so editing my Maple worksheets in vim and running in cli is not optimal for me).

thanks!

 

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