From: Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@venus.ling.helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: Alt as meta, except for certain keys, how?
Date: 13 Aug 2003 08:14:28 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qotsmo6nnpn.fsf@venus.ling.helsinki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3F392069.1010103@yahoo.com
Kevin Rodgers writes:
> Sorry, I was trying to show a general form via ellipses. A concrete
> example would be
>
> (define-key key-translation-map [?\M-7] "|")
Ah. That works all right, but when 7 is replaced with a letter outside
ASCII, it does not work.
> I don't know why those wouldn't work [] unless there are
> keyboard/buffer/file coding issues. You might want to use the octal
> encoding instead:
>
> [?\M-\241] ; meta inverted exclamation point
That's again an interesting suggestion. I notice that ?\M-{inv excl}
and ?\M-\241 have different values, and C-x = shows an {inv excl} in
the buffer as octal 4241, not just 241. A coding issue, then, maybe,
and yes, the following indeed seems to do the trick:
(define-key key-translation-map [?\M-\366] "*")
Octal 366 is Latin-1 for one of the letters I have a key for, the
letters shows as octal 4366 in the buffer, ?\M-{letter itself} does
not identify it for binding purposes, but ?\M-\366 seems to work.
Thank you.
> I don't understand Emacs' encoding scheme at all, nor do I want to.
Heh.
>> I think I'll use the numbers for these few keys.
>
> The "Character Type" node of the Emacs Lisp manual strongly
> discourages that:
Of course, and I agree, but I was failing to find any other way to
make it work. That octal syntax seems to do it, and all in standard
Latin-1, too, so I will change to use that instead.
--
Jussi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-13 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-07 17:33 Alt as meta, except for certain keys, how? Jussi Piitulainen
2003-08-07 18:38 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-08 7:05 ` Ehud Karni
[not found] ` <mailman.222.1060326618.29551.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-08-08 18:51 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-08 21:26 ` Ehud Karni
[not found] ` <mailman.235.1060378027.29551.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-08-11 18:10 ` Jussi Piitulainen
2003-08-11 20:29 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-12 8:26 ` Jussi Piitulainen
2003-08-12 17:14 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-13 5:14 ` Jussi Piitulainen [this message]
2003-08-15 13:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-08-11 19:54 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-08-12 11:13 ` Ehud Karni
[not found] ` <mailman.336.1060687053.29551.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-08-12 18:16 ` Jussi Piitulainen
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