Re: elisp question:keyboard-translate with hyper fail?

[Tim X]

Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mar 11, 4:01 am, Deniz Dogan <deniz.a.m.do...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > i double checked and the syntax for hyper ?\H- seems correct.
>>
>> (keyboard-translate ?\C-3 ?•) does not work for me.
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument characterp 67108915)
>>   keyboard-translate(67108915 8226)
>>   eval((keyboard-translate 67108915 8226))
>>   eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
>>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
>>   call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
>>
>> `keyboard-translate' only works with characters and neither C-3 nor
>> H-3 make up characters as far as I know.
>
> that's strange.
>
> i have the following and they work.
>
> ;; Swap “Ctrl+x” and “Ctrl+t”, so it's easier to type on Dvorak layout
> (keyboard-translate ?\C-t ?\C-x)
> (keyboard-translate ?\C-x ?\C-t)
>
> the ?\C-3 doesn't work (my mistake), but this works
> (keyboard-translate ?\C-t ?•)
>
> so maybe with a letter char it works, however, the following still
> doesn't work
> (keyboard-translate ?\H-t ?•)
>
>  Xah

Are you sure your keyboard is actually generating the keycode you think
it is? I remember on some (unix) based systems, I had to used xmodmap in
order to get the hyper key working.

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