Re: elisp question:keyboard-translate with hyper fail?

[Le Wang <l26wang@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>wrote:

> > ;; Swap “Ctrl+x” and “Ctrl+t”, so it's easier to type on Dvorak layout
> > (keyboard-translate ?\C-t ?\C-x)
> > (keyboard-translate ?\C-x ?\C-t)
>
> There are 32 Ctrl+letter combinations which are characters, and the
> above two are among them.  These are exceptional special cases due
> to history.  My general recommendation is to not use keyboard-translate
> but key-translation-map or function-key-map, which work on arbitrary
> key sequences rather only on single-char events.
>

I got these exact keyboard-translate lines from Xah's blog.  They don't work
reliably on Windows.  Sometimes after switching back to Emacs from another
program, and my first input to Emacs is C-j, C-j still registers instead of
C-x.

How would I use key-translation-map to do the swap?

(define-key key-translation-map [(control x)] [(control j)])
(define-key key-translation-map [(control j)] [(control x)])

C-j seems regixter as C-x.  But C-x acting like a prefix key, waiting for
the next input.


>
>        Stefan
>
>


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Le

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