Re: how to get Meta+y to be Meta+Tab

[Andreas Politz]

Xah wrote:
> suppose i want to make Meta+y to function as pressing Meta+Tab.
>
> intuitively, i do this:
> (keyboard-translate ?\M-y ?\M-9) ; Meta+y to Meta+Tab
>
> but that does not work.
>
> i looked in the elisp doc... seems the issue is rather complex
> involving elisp reader for chars under data type chapter, Event Mod
> under Input Events chapter, Keymap translation under key map
> chapter... hard to have a coherent picture at this point.
>
> Any idea how to get this to work?
>
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄

?\M-9 is the metafied key left from the 0 key. Anyway keyboard-translate
does not work with meta, try key-translation-map

(define-key key-translation-map [?\M-y] [?\M-\C-i])

-ap