From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: keyboard-translate working for Control but not for Alt Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1249591753 24586 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2009 20:49:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 20:49:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 06 22:49:04 2009 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 1MZ9tY-0001F1-3D for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:49:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MZ9tX-0001ky-IB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:49:03 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!postnews.google.com!x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 55 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1249459641 27560 127.0.0.1 (5 Aug 2009 08:07:21 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:07:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: x5g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/530.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2.0.172.37 Safari/530.5, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:171588 comp.emacs:98522 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:46:52 -0400 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:66872 Archived-At: no one has mentioned this yet... if you do (keyboard-translate ?\C-t ?\C-x) one problem is that ALL your C-t keys becomes C-x. So, for example, in outline-mode, C-c C-t runs hide-body. But now, when you type that, you get C-c C-x instead. A better solution is: (global-set-key (kbd "C-t") ctl-x-map) Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84 On Aug 4, 7:39 am, Elena wrote: > Hello, > > since I use a Dvorak keyboard, I'd like to swap C-x and C-t, as it is > suggested here: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DvorakKeyboard#toc4 > > The proposed code performs its task: > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DvorakKeyboard#toc4 > > (keyboard-translate ?\C-x ?\C-t) > (keyboard-translate ?\C-t ?\C-x) > > Out of curiosity, I tried to swap M-x and M-t as well: > > (keyboard-translate ?\M-x ?\M-t) > (keyboard-translate ?\M-t ?\M-x) > > but evaluating each expression fail with (numbers are not the same): > > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp > 134217848) > keyboard-translate(134217848 134217844) > eval((keyboard-translate 134217848 134217844)) > eval-last-sexp-1(nil) > eval-last-sexp(nil) > call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) > > Software: > - Windows XP SP3 > - GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2009-07-30 on SOFT- > MJASON > > Any help? > > Thanks.