Re: Screwed up keyboard mappings on RedHat

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
>> PS -- I've been using emacs for 20 years (since the original TOPS-10 
>> TECO version) and never even knew keyboard translation tables 
>> existed.  Is this a new development?
> 
> Nope.  Here are the oldest references I can find in the ChangeLog* files:
> 
> 
> Mon Jan  2 02:49:22 1989  Richard Stallman  (rms@mole.ai.mit.edu)
> ...
>     * vt200.el (keyboard-translate-table): Make a table,
>     and use it to interchange ESC and backquote.
> 
> Sat Mar 10 17:19:38 1990  Joseph Arceneaux  (jla at churchy.ai.mit.edu)
> ...
>     * keyboard.c (get_char):  Re-set obj if we've keyboard-translated
>     c.
> 
> Fri Oct 26 00:13:25 1990  Richard Stallman  (rms@mole.ai.mit.edu)
> ...
>     * subr.el (keyboard-translate): New function.

And since you're a real old-timer, here's a reference from the *NEWS files (I

can only trace my Emacs experience back to a TOPS-20 implementation -- not
sure if it was TECO or not :-)


Changes in Emacs 1.12
...
* You can now specify a translation table for keyboard
  input characters, as a way of exchanging or substituting
  keys on the keyboard.

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