OT: Auto repeat on <Escape> key (not a Debian specific question)

[rhkramer@gmail.com]

Is there a way to setup auto repeat for the <Escape> key?  Or maybe I could 
assign <Escape> to some other key that already has auto repeat?

Background / motivation: I get emails that have a lot of external references, 
and NoScript pops up a warning text box for each one which I must close (kmail 
is frozen until all of them are closed).

I can do things like mouse click on the Cancel or the X in the text box, but I 
have to do that for each text box, and:
 
    * they are not aligned or sized equally, so sometimes I have to move the 
mouse slightly to keep hitting the target (Cancel or the X)

   * if I hit the X or cancel one or more too many times, and there happpens 
to be a link in the email underneath the text box, I open that link (one or 
more times)

Using <Escape> is nicer because:

   * I don't have to align the mouse at all

   * extra presses of Escape don't do anything, or more specifically, don't 
open any link that happens to be behind the text box.

So, it would be nice to be able to just press and hold the <Escape> key until 
all of the text boxes are closed (rather than having to press it multiple 
times, once for each open text box).

Thanks for any suggestions!




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