[OpenIndiana-discuss] build xbindkeys from source

[Harry Putnam]

James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> writes:

> On 07/29/13 12:13, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> PS - Do you have any idea what role guile would play if the headers and
>> such were available?
>
> Guile is a Scheme-based application extension mechanism.  Having it
> available in xbindkeys means you can do more than just launch shell
> scripts; you can write key bindings in Scheme.
>
> If you don't have Guile, xbindkeys will ignore "$HOME/.xbindkeysrc.scm"
> and will just use "$HOME/.xbindkeysrc".

Thanks for that good info.

Sorry to be such a knothead here, but, what advantage would there be
to writing keybindings in Scheme?

I mean as against writing them in the notation of xbindkeys like these
sort of notations:
,----
| ## Key C+S + c chromium  started
|   "/usr/bin/chromium"
|    control+shift + c
`----