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

[B. T. Raven]

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/
>
> ☄

Maybe (global-unset-key KEY)and then (global-set-key)? Some minor modes 
might override the new setting but probably most won't.

Ed
Btw, what is that shooting star symbol? What unicode code point?