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From: | Kevin Rodgers |
Subject: | Re: Screwed up keyboard mappings on RedHat |
Date: | Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:50:35 -0600 |
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Kevin Rodgers wrote:
Roy Smith wrote:PS -- I've been using emacs for 20 years (since the original TOPS-10 TECO version) and never even knew keyboard translation tables existed. Is this a new development?Nope. Here are the oldest references I can find in the ChangeLog* files: Mon Jan 2 02:49:22 1989 Richard Stallman (rms@mole.ai.mit.edu) ... * vt200.el (keyboard-translate-table): Make a table, and use it to interchange ESC and backquote. Sat Mar 10 17:19:38 1990 Joseph Arceneaux (jla at churchy.ai.mit.edu) ... * keyboard.c (get_char): Re-set obj if we've keyboard-translated c. Fri Oct 26 00:13:25 1990 Richard Stallman (rms@mole.ai.mit.edu) ... * subr.el (keyboard-translate): New function.
And since you're a real old-timer, here's a reference from the *NEWS files (I can only trace my Emacs experience back to a TOPS-20 implementation -- not sure if it was TECO or not :-) Changes in Emacs 1.12 ... * You can now specify a translation table for keyboard input characters, as a way of exchanging or substituting keys on the keyboard. -- <a href="mailto:<kevin.rodgers@ihs.com>">Kevin Rodgers</a>
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