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bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon
From: |
Ryo Furue |
Subject: |
bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:26:54 -1000 (HST) |
Hi Stefan,
Thank you. You are so kind and patient.
| [. . . keyboard-translate is an obsolete feature . . .]
|
OK.
Now, I'm totally confused about the so-called "delete" key.
My original problem was that I want to delete the character
before the cursor with C-h . I thought emacs originally assigns
it to the "delete" key. But, it seems there's a confusion
in terminology. You see, I'm so ignorant about those "special"
keys :-) because I don't usually use them except for ESC
(which sits next to "1/!"), TAB, CTRL (which sits next to "A"),
and SHIFT. I can't type arrow keys, BACKSPACE, ALT, or DELETE,
without searching for them, looking at the keyboard.
| > 1) My delete key doesn't work in the first place. I don't know
| > what's wrong but it doesn't do anything on the bash prompt,
| > for example, and it doesn't delete the character before the cursor
| > on emacs (A message "End of Buffer" appears in the message line).
|
| That looks like a problem in itself which you may want to fix.
| What does C-h k <your delete key here> say?
The answer was surprising to me:
C-d (translated from <delete>) runs the command delete-char, which is
an interactive built-in function in `C source code'.
It is bound to <deletechar>, C-d.
I don't know who translates my "delete" to C-d. But, I've just
found that it does what C-d does.
I've also found that my BACKSPACE key seems to be what emacs
calls DEL:
DEL (translated from <backspace>) runs the command
backward-delete-char-untabify, which is an interactive compiled Lisp
function.
It is bound to DEL.
(By the way, I obtained these results on "/usr/bin/emacs23 -q", so
they are not affected by my ~/.emacs .)
So . . . for so many years, I've had the wrong notion that emacs
used the DELETE key (the one below "Insert" and to the left of "End"
on a Dell keyboard which I don't use but happen to find here) to
delete the character before the cursor. Because of this
misunderstanding, I was confusing you, I suppose. Sorry.
In any case, my problem stands the same because I don't use
BACKSPACE either (and I'd like to avoid it, if at all
possible).
| The invocation below:
|
| (define-key key-translation-map [?\C-h] [?\C-?])
|
| should do the trick.
Thank you very much for finding that out! That's much
better than keyboard-translate:
$ emacs --daemon
$ emacsclient -c
# key-translation is NOT effective.
# Evaluate (define-key key-translation-map [?\C-h] [?\C-?]).
# Exit.
$ emacsclient -c
# key-translation IS effective.
$ emacsclient -c -nw
# key-translation IS effective.
As you can see, the emacs daemon seems to ignore it
in your ~/.emacs and you still have to manually
evaluate it on an emacsclient. But, once you've evaluated
it, it seems to stick. That's a huge improvement.
Since my emacs daemon is sitting on my desktop for many
days, I can live with the current situation. Maybe
in the future, I hope the emacs daemon recognizes
key-translation-map in ~/.emacs.
Thank you again for your help.
Regards,
Ryo
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Ryo Furue, 2009/10/14
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/14
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Ryo Furue, 2009/10/14
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/14
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Ryo Furue, 2009/10/15
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/15
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon,
Ryo Furue <=
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/15
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Ryo Furue, 2009/10/16
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/16
- bug#4709: 23.1; keyboard-translate not working with emacs daemon, Glenn Morris, 2009/10/16