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From: huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Kathryn Huxtable)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Anything You Can Do... (really, elisp question)
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Date: 17 Apr 89 06:21:12 GMT
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In article <4943@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>, jans@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Jan Steinman) writes:
> 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.  [stuff deleted]

It *is* a string.  It's just that by default the variable's value is
nil and no translation is done.  I suppose this gains speed (?).  If
the value is set, then the translation is done.  Look at the
documentation on the variable for a coherent description (C-H C-V).

-Kathryn Huxtable
huxtable@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu,
who always gets her $.02 in last because she's far from the centers of netland.