http://www.purl.org/tcl/home/man/tcl8.4/TkCmd/keysyms.htm describes what key symbol values can be used with bind (any other commands?). ---- [[What is a key symbol?]] [KeySyms on platforms other than X11] may contain some answers. ---- Open a wish session and type bind . {puts %K} Then press any key or key combination to learn the keysym for your desired key binding. A [Tkinter] correspondent: from Tkinter import * class Output(Label): def printkey(self, event): self.config(text=event.keysym) root = Tk() label = Label(root, text='Press a key...') output = Output(root, takefocus=1) label.pack() output.pack() output.focus() output.bind('', output.printkey) root.mainloop() (Things are apparently ''so'' much simpler in Tcl/Tk.) ---- Is there any way to use accented characters (as used in many European languages) in bindings? I want, for example, Alt-e' (meant to be Alt pressed with an accented e) to be bound to a command. -- [CLN] 2001-06-11 [Peter Lewerin] 2001-06-30: bind . ... would seem to do what you want, but possibly only if you actually have a ��© key to press. At least for me, characters composed with dead keys don't fire the bindings, but character keys (e.g. adiaeresis on my keyboard) do. ---- [[Distinguish keysyms and key codes.]] ---- [Mo Dejong] included in the Tk test suite keypress-pertinent code. He advises, "See the following procs in tk/tests/event.test: _init_keypress_lookup _keypress_lookup _keypress _keypress_string With these commands you can do the following: _keypress_string $w HELLO\n This will generate a keypress for each letter followed by an event for the return key." ---- See also [keysyms for Tcl] ---- [Tk syntax help] - [Arts and crafts of Tcl-Tk programming]