From: "B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to get Meta+y to be Meta+Tab
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:08:35 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <KuGdnfZToaLEyJ_UnZ2dnUVZ_vSdnZ2d@sysmatrix.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <601c6f74-a6ab-434b-954a-3663a58c9f60@t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
Xah wrote:
> suppose i want to make Meta+y to function as pressing Meta+Tab.
>
> intuitively, i do this:
> (keyboard-translate ?\M-y ?\M-9) ; Meta+y to Meta+Tab
>
> but that does not work.
>
> i looked in the elisp doc... seems the issue is rather complex
> involving elisp reader for chars under data type chapter, Event Mod
> under Input Events chapter, Keymap translation under key map
> chapter... hard to have a coherent picture at this point.
>
> Any idea how to get this to work?
>
> Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄
Maybe (global-unset-key KEY)and then (global-set-key)? Some minor modes
might override the new setting but probably most won't.
Ed
Btw, what is that shooting star symbol? What unicode code point?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 21:47 how to get Meta+y to be Meta+Tab Xah
2008-10-24 23:08 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2008-10-25 21:40 ` Xah
2008-10-26 14:11 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.2123.1225030309.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-28 6:13 ` Xah
2008-10-25 23:01 ` Andreas Politz
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