From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to get Meta+y to be Meta+Tab Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:08:35 -0500 Message-ID: References: <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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224891633 10463 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 23:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:40:33 +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 01:41:33 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 1KtWHc-0005zV-RP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:41:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60032 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtWGW-0004ES-Mp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:40:24 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.sysmatrix.net!news.sysmatrix.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:08:09 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs In-Reply-To: <601c6f74-a6ab-434b-954a-3663a58c9f60@t39g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 25 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.45.140.68 Original-X-Trace: sv3-91TvuDrb55bTWf7UxbK9PRV76l32vTaUX15oiCSILn3UzhQOWfi1ylyfrLjPDMbAD44qcLt5/Lq2r8t!1/CmBL8j+6djkDGJTD1De3fCAXg4/xaxp76TGSI1D3UexT1rT62FS3Sp/I2zfGWODvxPpbzbj+OU!24GHXOnrBSPM6zRjEDENotu8yOS4kg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sysmatrix.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163807 comp.emacs:97266 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:59144 Archived-At: Xah wrote: > 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 > ∑ http://xahlee.org/ > > ☄ Maybe (global-unset-key KEY)and then (global-set-key)? Some minor modes might override the new setting but probably most won't. Ed Btw, what is that shooting star symbol? What unicode code point?