From: Benjamin Rutt <rutt+news@cis.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: How to swap M-TAB and M-`
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:57:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wc3d6psol2f.fsf@eta.cis.ohio-state.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DBEC4EE.9020007@ihs.com
Kevin Rodgers <kevinr@ihs.com> writes:
> Exactly. Do keyboard-translate and keyboard-translate-table handle arbitrary
> keyboard events, or just characters? The "Keyboard Translations" Info node of
> the Emacs manual indicates the latter:
>
> ... there is only one set of keyboard
> translations, and it applies to every character that Emacs reads from
> the terminal. Keyboard translations take place at the lowest level of
> input processing; the keys that are looked up in keymaps contain the
> characters that result from keyboard translation.
>
>
> ... Keyboard translations affect only ASCII character input, not
> function keys;
>
> So perhaps you need to use key-translation-map instead.
Good idea. As an example, I've had good luck translating C-M-tab into
M-tab with the following:
(define-key key-translation-map (kbd "<C-M-tab>") "\e\t")
--
Benjamin
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-29 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-25 0:44 How to swap M-TAB and M-` Jiri Pejchal
2002-10-25 3:35 ` Michael Slass
2002-10-25 19:46 ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-10-26 9:04 ` Jiri Pejchal
2002-10-26 14:40 ` Benjamin Rutt
2002-10-29 12:36 ` Jiri Pejchal
2002-10-29 17:27 ` Kevin Rodgers
2002-10-29 23:57 ` Benjamin Rutt [this message]
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