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Re: how to get Meta+y to be Meta+Tab
From: |
Nikolaj Schumacher |
Subject: |
Re: how to get Meta+y to be Meta+Tab |
Date: |
Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:11:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) |
Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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) but that does
> not work.»
>
> B T Raven wrote:
> «Maybe (global-unset-key KEY)and then (global-set-key)? Some minor
> modes might override the new setting but probably most won't.»
It would be nice if you could use a more common quoting mechanism (like
a ">" prefix), so syntax highlighting picks up the quotation. It makes
reading much easier.
> am pretty sure that global-set-key cannot be used for the
> functionality of keyboard-translate.
In a way it can. You can bind it to a macro:
(global-set-key "\M-y" "\M-\t")
Using `keyboard-translate' is generally a little risky, because it will
change the key in all places. So people wouldn't be able to do use C-c M-y
anymore. So I would only use it to fix keyboard issues.
You can also write a function like this:
(defun do-what-backspace-does ()
(interactive)
(call-interactively (key-binding "\C-?")))
I've found that one to be the most reliable solution.
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher