Re: Screwed up keyboard mappings on RedHat

[Kevin Rodgers]

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)
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        * 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)
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        * 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)
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        * subr.el (keyboard-translate): New function.

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