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From: Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.att.com
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: GNU Emacs' keyboard-translate-table again
Message-ID: <248@cbstr1.att.com>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 16:29:31 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 28 16:29:31 1987
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Keywords: Dvorak keyboard conversion
Summary: Yes, it can be done.
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.44.1 of Mon May 18 1987 on cbstr1 (usg-unix-v)


Yes, the keyboard-translate-table can be used to force a normal QWERTY
keyboard to behave (almost) as though it was a Dvorak keyboard.
Implementation trivial, left as an exercise for the reader of my
previous note.

But it won't work perfectly, because most keyboards I know have no
ASCII interpretation of, for example, "C-;", which is where S/s/C-s
needs to land.  And the interpretation of that character, as well as
C-, C-. and C-/, will no doubt be keyboard-dependent.  Bummer.  (My
DMD keyboard generates C-^ for "control-period"; what does yours do?)

If you need a Dvorak layout to work with, here's the Basic Thirty:
+--------------------------------+
| ;  ,  .  p  y  f  g  c  r  l   |
|  a  o  e  u  i  d  h  t  n  s  |
|   /  q  j  k  x  b  m  w  v  z |
+--------------------------------+

In weirdness,
Karl