Re: Rebinding keys

[Mark Skilbeck]

Óla!

The following ought to work (it worked for me in C-s):

  (define-key key-translation-map [?ä] [?a])

-- mgsk

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 03:04:19PM +0100, Nicolas Neuss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for rebinding Umlaute keys on a German keyboard to bindings which are
> more useful for LaTeX, I tried the following
> 
> (global-set-key (kbd "ä") '(lambda () (interactive) (insert "]")))
> 
> This works when writing normal text, but unfortunately, in search mode
> (after C-s, for example), pressing the respective key still searches for
> "ä".
> 
> Is there a better or more complete way to redefine that key?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> P.S.: This is on a Mac with Aquamacs, but the same happens with Emacs 23
> under Ubuntu.
> 
> P.S.2: Under Linux/X, I usually use .xmodmap for rebinding the umlaute
> keys for all applications.  Does anyone here know of a similar key
> rebinding for Aqua?