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From: jans@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Anything You Can Do... (really, elisp question)
Message-ID: <4943@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Apr 89 19:48:23 GMT
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Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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<<The keyboard on my home computer has the single quote key where the ESC key 
should be...  Is there any way in Gnu Emacs to switch the bindings of these two 
keys...?>>

<Try putting the following into your ~/.emacs...>

Just what I was thinking, as I've done this to swap backspace with rubout, but 
here's a question:  why must you rebuild the entire list from scratch?  Note 
that the example given undoes any backspace/rubout swap that was put in 
site-init.el.  I've tried:

	(aset keyboard-translate-table ?\177 ?\010)
	(aset keyboard-translate-table ?\010 ?\177)

which didn't work, probably because keyboard-translate-table is a list rather 
than an string.  Other than using some ungodly combination of cons/car/cdr, is 
there some way to index into and modify keyboard-translate-table without 
building it from scratch?

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