keyboard-translate does suddenly not work anymore

keyboard-translate does suddenly not work anymore

[Nicolas Neuss]

Hello,

until today the following translation from the German "Umlaut" ö to the
bracket [ has worked fine in my .emacs:

(keyboard-translate ?\366 ?\[)

However, something has broken this (Maybe some software update, because I
installed Motif today?  Before this I have also reconfigured the X
server.).  Now this command does not produce a visible change anymore.
(Same of course for other "Umlaute" which I also used to translate.)  Does
anyone know the reason and a cure?

Thank you, Nicolas. 

P.S.: I'm using Emacs 21.4.1 on Debian on a IBM T40 laptop.

Re: keyboard-translate does suddenly not work anymore

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 10.05.2005 um 23:39 schrieb Nicolas Neuss:

> (keyboard-translate ?\366 ?\[)
>
> However, something has broken this (Maybe some software update, 
> because I
> installed Motif today?  Before this I have also reconfigured the X
> server.).

You know 'xmodmap -pk'? You can re-programme the X server partially 
with xmodmap: it has some 'programming language' to 'correct' the 
keyboard layout (here commented):

!!keycode 60 = Meta_R
!!keycode 69 = Meta_R
!!keycode 63 = Alt_L
!!keycode 66 = Meta_L
!!
!!clear Mod1
!!clear Mod2
!!
!!add Mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
!!add Mod2 = Meta_L Meta_R

In .xinitrc you then could do: xmodmap .xmodmaprc ...


In GNU Emacs you can check your keyboard with C-h k.

A bit deeper goes C-u M-: (read-event) RET <your key>. ö would probably 
produce 2294 (04366, 0x8f6).


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Re: keyboard-translate does suddenly not work anymore

[Nicolas Neuss]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> You know 'xmodmap -pk'? You can re-programme the X server partially with
> xmodmap: it has some 'programming language' to 'correct' the keyboard
> layout (here commented): ...

This works perfectly and is much better than my way, because it corrects
the keys also outside Emacs.  Thank you very much!

Nicolas.

Re: keyboard-translate does suddenly not work anymore

[Stefan Monnier]

> until today the following translation from the German "Umlaut" ö to the
> bracket [ has worked fine in my .emacs:

> (keyboard-translate ?\366 ?\[)

> However, something has broken this (Maybe some software update, because I
> installed Motif today?  Before this I have also reconfigured the X

I see you've found a better solution, but just for your information: ?\366
is not "ö".  Recent Emacsen have improved the keyboard handling such that
the byte sequence coming in from the tty is more properly decoded into
a sequence of chars.  So maybe your problem was that you should have
now used:

  (keyboard-translate ?\ö ?\[)

of course, assuming the file in which the above expression is written uses
an appropriate encoding corresponding to the encoding used on your keyboard.

Admittedly, I can't remember in which order things like keyboard-translate
and keyboard decoding take place, so maybe I'm just wrong.


        Stefan