help to complete emergency keyboard remapping

[Marco Fioretti]

Hello all,

after years of intensive typing, the Down arrow key on my keyboard just broke (mechanically, I mean), I NEED it badly to quickly scroll up and down big text files because I have a deadline tomorrow and for several reasons cannot get any other keyboard before Wednesday morning

so as a temporary patch I just did this, to remap the Control Right key to Down:

xmodmap -e "keycode 105 = Down"

this works, but not continuously. That is, if I need to scroll down 20 lines, I must press the Control R key 20 separate times, instead of keeping it pressed.

What am I missing? Surely something basic, but right now I honestly cannot recognize it in the xmodmap documentation I've already checked

of course, these things always happen right BEFORE an urgent job is finished, never AFTER....

Thanks in advance for your help, any minute matters. 

Marco
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