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From: mdb@bridge2.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Anything You Can Do, I Can Do "Meta"
Message-ID: <MDB.89Apr12174148@kosciusko.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 13 Apr 89 00:41:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: srt@aero.ARPA's message of 11 Apr 89 18:17:47 GMT

In article <49058@aero.ARPA> srt@aerospace.aero.org (Scott "CBS"
Turner) writes:
>   The keyboard on my home computer has the single quote key where the
>   ESC key should be (on the upper left) and the ESC key on the numeric
>   keypad.  Needless to say, I find this fairly annoying.
>
>   Is there any way in Gnu Emacs to switch the bindings of these two keys
>   so that hitting the single quote key becomes *exactly the same* as
>   hitting the (normal) ESC key and the ESC key becomes the single quote
>   key?  Binding esc-map to the single quote seems to work, but getting
>   ESC to insert a single quote seems to be beyond my abilities.

Try putting the following into your ~/.emacs

;;
;; This keyboard-translate-table swaps ESC (\033) with ' (\047)
;;
;; To reset to the default issue the following list command.
;;
;;(setq keyboard-translate-table nil)

(setq keyboard-translate-table	
      (concat
       "\000\001\002\003\004\005\006\007\010\011\012\013\014\015\016\017"
       "\020\021\022\023\024\025\026\027\030\031\032'\034\035\036\037"
       " !\042#$%&\033()*+,-./"
       "0123456789:;<=>?"
       "@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO"
       "PQRSTUVWXYZ[\134]^_"
       "`abcdefghijklmno"
       "pqrstuvwxyz{|}~\177"))

Enjoy!
--
Mark Baushke
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