Emacs: Rebind numbers (Editor of the Beast VI VI VI)

Question

Just coming to Emacs from vi.

I'd like to rebind all the numbers across the top of the keyboard to their shifted counterparts (i.e. 1 maps to !, 2 maps to @, etc), while at the same time keeping the numerical keypad numbers as simply numbers.

I remapped the numbers just fine, and the numbers across the top of the keyboard map to symbols correctly; however this also maps the keypad numbers to symbols. In response I tried to remap the keypad numbers back to numbers again but this is unsuccessful - they stay as symbols.

This was straightforward and easy to accomplish when I was using vi, but I would prefer to keep using Emacs. Anyone have a solution?

Sample .emacs:

(global-set-key "1" "!")
; etc...

(global-set-key [kp-1] "1")
; etc...

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 31 '14 at 09:55

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Maybe something like this:

(global-set-key (kbd "<kp-1>") "1")
(keyboard-translate ?1 ?!)

I would actually use xmodmap to change the keys across the whole system, not just Emacs.

answered Mar 31 '14 at 09:55

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You may wish to take a look at this answer as well: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5066313/324105 – phils Mar 31 '14 at 11:36

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 31 '14 at 10:51

Try this:

(global-set-key "1" "!")
(global-set-key [kp-1] (lambda () (interactive) (insert "1")))

P.S. I use (lambda () (interactive) ...) in global-set-key frequently and create alias for it:

(defmacro ilam (&rest body)
  "Interactive lambda"
  `(lambda ()
     (interactive)
     ,@body))

Emacs: Rebind numbers (Editor of the Beast VI VI VI)

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