1

I'm reading the beginning of the Emacs manual on inserting text. It says you can run C-x 8 [ to insert a left single curly quote. That works.

In my init.el I have this:

(define-key global-map [(control t)] ctl-x-map)

I like that because I use a Dvorak keyboard layout, so C-t is easy to type. Usually that line takes commands that start with C-x and makes them available starting with C-t too. But it's failing with this C-x 8. If I do: C-t 8 [, it get a beep and nothing.

In contrast I can do both C-x b and C-t b to switch to a buffer.

Why does my define-key attempt work for most C-x commands but not C-x 8.

I'm running GNU Emacs 27.2 on macOS 12.

Improve this question

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
2

C-x 8 [ and similar are defined in a different keymap, iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map.

What you need is this:

(define-key key-translation-map "\C-t8" 'iso-transl-ctl-x-8-map)

See the Elisp manual, node Translation Keymaps for more info.

Improve this answer

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.