Re: How to translate M-kp-multiply to M-* before key is mapped to function?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

paul wrote:
 > I've nearly pulled out my hair for the following problem;
 > I want to translate M-kp-multiply to M-* *BEFORE* the key
 > gets bound to its default function (in my case pop-tag-mark).

You must be running emacs without a window system (or under a window
system, but with the -nw command line option).  In an xterm on my
platform (i386-pc-solaris2.7, X toolkit), `C-h k M-kp-multiply' shows

| ESC * runs the command pop-tag-mark

and then `C-h l' shows

| C-h k ESC * C-h l

The odd thing is that function-key-map contains this entry

(kp-multiply . [42])

but no escape sequence that maps to [kp-multiply] in the way that `ESC [
1 1 ~' is bound to [f1] or `ESC O p' is bound to [kp-1].

 > I do *not* want to use global-set-key but am looking for
 > a general way to remap non-ascii input events.

What non-ASCII input event do you think your terminal is sending to
Emacs?

 > Using (define-key function-key-map ...) or (define-key key-translation-map ...)
 > is too late; I can remap the key, but the function pop-tag-mark is not
 > called.

Since setting function-key-map and key-translation-map do not change the
results reported by `C-h k' and `C-h l', I don't think they have
anything to do with it: I think it means that the xterm is actually
sending `*' to Emacs, not an escape sequence.

 > Trying an approach with keyboard-translate drives me nuts because
 > it does not seem to support non-ascii events.

What do you want to do?  It seems like you want to bind M-kp-multiply to
a different command, but for some reason you don't want to use
global-set-key like this:

(global-set-key "\M-*" 'whatever)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
paul wrote:
 > I've nearly pulled out my hair for the following problem;
 > I want to translate M-kp-multiply to M-* *BEFORE* the key
 > gets bound to its default function (in my case pop-tag-mark).

You must be running emacs without a window system (or under a window
system, but with the -nw command line option).  In an xterm on my
platform (i386-pc-solaris2.7, X toolkit), `C-h k M-kp-multiply' shows

| ESC * runs the command pop-tag-mark

and then `C-h l' shows

| C-h k ESC * C-h l

The odd thing is that function-key-map contains this entry

(kp-multiply . [42])

but no escape sequence that maps to [kp-multiply] in the way that `ESC [
1 1 ~' is bound to [f1] or `ESC O p' is bound to [kp-1].

 > I do *not* want to use global-set-key but am looking for
 > a general way to remap non-ascii input events.

What non-ASCII input event do you think your terminal is sending to
Emacs?

 > Using (define-key function-key-map ...) or (define-key key-translation-map ...)
 > is too late; I can remap the key, but the function pop-tag-mark is not
 > called.

Since setting function-key-map and key-translation-map do not change the
results reported by `C-h k' and `C-h l', I don't think they have
anything to do with it: I think it means that the xterm is actually
sending `*' to Emacs, not an escape sequence.

 > Trying an approach with keyboard-translate drives me nuts because
 > it does not seem to support non-ascii events.

What do you want to do?  It seems like you want to bind M-kp-multiply to
a different command, but for some reason you don't want to use
global-set-key like this:

(global-set-key "\M-*" 'whatever)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers