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From: jr@BBN.COM (John Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Emacs user-interface problem. uEmacs 3.10.
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Date: 13 Oct 89 13:38:27 GMT
References: <1143@aber-cs.UUCP>
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In article <1143@aber-cs.UUCP>, Piercarlo Grandi <pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk> writes:
> Under GNU Emacs, instead of blithely binding search and quote to ^\ and ^^,
> you are better off with something like:
>
>
>  	(setq keyboard-translate-table
> 		"^H^I^J^K
> 	(set-input-mode nil t)


... at least that is how it looked when it got here (I have
decontrol-ified the ramains of the string).  The file $EMACS/PROBLEMS
in the gnu distribution has a working version.

In the interest of promoting similarity across emacses, I hope the
micro flavors can settle on this convention (that is, ^\ for ^S and ^^
for ^Q).  If these are hard to type on your terminal, sometimes they
can (or must) be typed in other ways.  The VT100 (DEC's, at least) got
some of these oddball control characters in strange places.

Note that keyboard-translating is (I expect) not available in the
micro emacses, though I expect it would be straightforward to wire a
translation into the source if you were so inclined.  Otherwise, the
rebinding route will work.
--
/jr, nee John Robinson     Life did not take over the globe by combat,
jr@bbn.com or bbn!jr          but by networking -- Lynn Margulis