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From: dennis@uw-warp.UUCP (Dennis Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: gnumacs bindings
Message-ID: <273@uw-warp.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 2-Oct-87 15:24:53 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  2 15:24:53 1987
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In-reply-to: exodus@uop.UUCP's message of 19 Sep 87 01:24:06 GMT


>We have a few Convergent Technologies terminals here and the DELete key
>is off on the left hand side of the keyboard, sort of where function keys
>on certain IBM keyboards are.  It's far too difficult to use that key.
>The escape key is on the far right of the keyboard on the numeric keypad.
>That is one keyboard no EMACS user could live with!
>
>G. Onufer
>University of the Pacific

This is just a short plug (and reminder) for keyboard rebinding at the
keyboard-translate-table level.  I frequently have to use a vt220,
which has the backquote key where my fingers say ESC belongs, and has
ESC up above the main keyboard in a row of function keys.  With the
following kind of lisp line in my .emacs, I can use backquote as ESC
and ESC as backquote (since I rarely use backquote, except in typing
TeX documents, where TeX-mode automatically turns my double-quotes (")
into backquotes for me).

(setq keyboard-translate-table "\001\002\003...\032'\034...XYZ[\]^_\033abc..."
                                                   ^bq goes here    ^ESC here

Of course, this precludes using the arrow keys, but since I have to
use many different terminals, some of which don't even have arrow
keys, I don't miss them.

Happy Emacsing,
-- 
Dennis.
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