From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how to get Meta+y to be Meta+Tab Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:47:40 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <601c6f74-a6ab-434b-954a-3663a58c9f60@t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224888050 1572 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 22:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 25 00:41:52 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KtVLo-00006J-6i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:41:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58160 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtVKi-0007b1-HX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:40:40 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 18 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.185.159 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224884860 21917 127.0.0.1 (24 Oct 2008 21:47:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:47:40 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.185.159; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163806 comp.emacs:97265 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:59143 Archived-At: 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 =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84