Re: custom keyboard layout? howto redefine keys?

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

nic.d.m.1@googlemail.com wrote:
> Is there a way to customize the keyboard layout within emacs? For
> example if I want "the key on my keyboard labeled 'a'  behave like
> that labeled 'b' I think the code for my .emacs file should be
> something like this:
> 
> (global-set-key ["Key labeled 'a' on my keyboard"]  'ucs-insert 0062)
> 
> I am new to emacs and don't know what the correct syntax for "Key
> labeled 'a' on my keyboard' could be.
> 
> So I tried to make f5 instead behave like b:
> 
> (global-set-key [f5]  'ucs-insert 0062)
> 
> Then I get an error message: "Wrong type argument: commandp, (ucs-
> insert 62)" if I restart emacs and press f5.
> 
> (For example (global-set-key [f1]  'ucs-insert) works, but then it
> asks which UTF-8 character I want to insert, that's not what I want)
> 
> Any ideas?

(global-set-key [f5] (lambda () (interactive) (ucs-insert "62")))

ucs-insert seems to want a string;

for your original question you could also do this:

(global-set-key "a" "b")

but you will immediately regret it, since now you won't be able to type 
the letter a, for example to assign it to another key. At least I 
couldn't figure out how to undo the damage and I had to re-start Emacs.

> 
> thanks
> nic