Re: define-key acting strange..

["D. Goel" <deego@glue.umd.edu>]

The 'emacs-freezing' problem--->

Summary: No bug here.. report closed :)

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> >     i am still curious why emacs froze though..
> > 
> > RMS: Would you like to use GDB and investigate?
> 
> Sure.   will do.  


Upon further investigation :) , 

Recap: this was a 'side-issue' in a differnet bug-report.. the
question was why a certain expression[1], which mapped a lot of
*function-keys* into each other, seemed to freeze Emacs. 

It now seems that Emacs is not really frozen. It is just that all (all
that i tried) of the C- commands, M- commands and number-keys beep at
you... whereas other self-insert characters like ?a--?z still seem to
self-insert..  As for the keys that stop working, well, i should not
expect any better when i am doing such a huge mapping of the
function-keys, and surely they must be somehow related to that
mapping..  Therefore, IMHO, there's is no bug-report here...


[1] the expression being: 
(progn
  (define-key key-translation-map [a] [A])
  (define-key key-translation-map [b] [B])
  (define-key key-translation-map [c] [C])
  (define-key key-translation-map [d] [D])
  (define-key key-translation-map [e] [E])
  (define-key key-translation-map [f] [F])
  (define-key key-translation-map [g] [G])
  (define-key key-translation-map [h] [H])
  (define-key key-translation-map [i] [I])
  (define-key key-translation-map [j] [J])
  (define-key key-translation-map [k] [K])
  (define-key key-translation-map [l] [L])
  (define-key key-translation-map [m] [M])
  (define-key key-translation-map [n] [N])
  (define-key key-translation-map [o] [O])
  (define-key key-translation-map [p] [P])
  (define-key key-translation-map [q] [Q])
  (define-key key-translation-map [r] [R])
  (define-key key-translation-map [s] [S])
  (define-key key-translation-map [t] [T])
  (define-key key-translation-map [u] [U])
  (define-key key-translation-map [v] [V])
  (define-key key-translation-map [w] [W])
  (define-key key-translation-map [x] [X])
  (define-key key-translation-map [y] [Y])
  (define-key key-translation-map [z] [Z])

  (define-key key-translation-map [A] [a])
  (define-key key-translation-map [B] [b])
  (define-key key-translation-map [C] [c])
  (define-key key-translation-map [D] [d])
  (define-key key-translation-map [E] [e])
  (define-key key-translation-map [F] [f])
  (define-key key-translation-map [G] [g])
  (define-key key-translation-map [H] [h])
  (define-key key-translation-map [I] [i])
  (define-key key-translation-map [J] [j])
  (define-key key-translation-map [K] [k])
  (define-key key-translation-map [L] [l])
  (define-key key-translation-map [M] [m])
  (define-key key-translation-map [N] [n])
  (define-key key-translation-map [O] [o])
  (define-key key-translation-map [P] [p])
  (define-key key-translation-map [Q] [q])
  (define-key key-translation-map [R] [r])
  (define-key key-translation-map [S] [s])
  (define-key key-translation-map [T] [t])
  (define-key key-translation-map [U] [u])
  (define-key key-translation-map [V] [v])
  (define-key key-translation-map [W] [w])
  (define-key key-translation-map [X] [x])
  (define-key key-translation-map [Y] [y])
  (define-key key-translation-map [Z] [z])
  )