From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Translating keys Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:10:24 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87d5m4c2r3.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129515410 13165 80.91.229.2 (17 Oct 2005 02:16:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 02:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 04:16:41 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERKX3-000425-EJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 04:15:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERKX2-0008CJ-VT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 22:15:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!image.surnet.ru!easynet-quince!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uCQrQQR4yDCMjSeC027ex3Np86c= Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=AIkk\2Zf?`WKn;S9\iaO4VN[]a?6B>:PSbBd4DjF1d]Q Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:134684 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:30266 Archived-At: Elena Garrulo writes: > Hello, > > I'd like to translate some keys in a mode dependent way. For > example, when in c-mode, the key which prints "ò" should print "{"; > when in text-mode should print the original character. Since the > translation should be mode dependent, keyboard-translate is not a > viable option. I've tried: > > (local-set-key "ò" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "{"))) If you want to translate keys why do you use local-set-key? Use: keyboard-translate ! Now, if what you really want is to bind a function to a key, then use local-set-key: (local-set-key (kbd "A-o") ...) or whatever key combination you use to get 'ò'. A- = Alt C- = Control M- = Meta S- = Shift s- = Super H- = Hyper -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. -- Georges W. Bush