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From: rbj@ICST-CMR.ARPA (Root Boy Jim)
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Subject: gnumacs bindings
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Date: Thu, 8-Oct-87 17:21:08 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  8 17:21:08 1987
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   From: Dennis Gentry

   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).

Hmmm. I don't know why I didn't think of this, probably because I solved
the problem differently before I found about `keyboard-translate-table'.

What I did was:

(global-set-key "`" 'ESC-prefix)
(global-set-key "\e`" 'self-insert-command)

Note that there is no command bound to M-`. Typed twice, it self inserts.
Of course, this doesn't do a thing for local keymaps, and "`" will not
terminate searches, query replaces, etc.

   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.

Just because you translated "`" to escape doesn't mean you have to do the
reverse. Find an empty key and bind it to 'insert-tick (the writing of
which is left as an exercise).

I will probably remap tick to escape myself.

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