brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (12/31/87)
I'd like to swap the meaning of the pair of keys "[" and "]" with that
of "(" and ")" when in Lisp Mode. That is, when I type a "[", I want
to see a "(", and similar with "]" and ")". Why? Because on my
keyboard, the parens are shifted while the brackets are not, and I'd
like to avoid all that shifting (a la Lispm keyboard). I only want to
do this in Lisp Mode, so it seems I have to fool with lisp-mode-map.
But all my attempts, using define-key, have lost. What's the trick?
People should mail to me directly, and I'll summarize (don't want to
fill the newsgroup with repeats). Thanks.
--
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brantkarl@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) (01/04/88)
Your first solution ought to be buy something with a proper keyboard, but... Try C-h v keyboard-translate-table and create a replacement string for the k-t-t with appropriate alterations from the ASCII norm. -- Karl
brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (01/04/88)
In article <326@manta.UUCP> I write: >I'd like to swap the meaning of the pair of keys "[" and "]" with that >of "(" and ")" when in Lisp Mode. The cleanest solution (due to weemba@garnet) is the following: (defun insert-lp () (interactive) (insert ?\()) (defun insert-rp () (interactive) (insert ?\)) (blink-matching-open)) (defun insert-lb () (interactive) (insert ?\[)) (defun insert-rb () (interactive) (insert ?\])) (define-key lisp-mode-map "(" 'insert-lb) (define-key lisp-mode-map ")" 'insert-rb) (define-key lisp-mode-map "[" 'insert-lp) (define-key lisp-mode-map "]" 'insert-rp) Thanks to all who replied. Happy Gnu Year! -b -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant