Subject: bug#59130: Inconsistent behaviour with key-translation-map

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 22:21:52 +0200

> From: João Guerra <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 20:37:36 +0100
> 
> It's possible to remap keys into other keys or sequence of keys via
> key-translation-map
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Translation-Keymaps.html).
> 
> For example,
> 
> setting
> (define-key key-translation-map (kbd "<apps>") (kbd "C-x C-f"))
> and pressing <apps> will execute command find-file,
> 
> setting
> (define-key key-translation-map (kbd "<apps>") (kbd "C-x"))
> and pressing <apps> C-f will execute command find-file.
> 
> However, setting
> (define-key key-translation-map (kbd "<apps>") (kbd "C-x @ h"))
> and pressing <apps> p will not execute H-p.
> 
> (C-x @ h adds prefix hyper
> https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Modifier-Keys.html)
> 
> Is this an issue or as expected?

Adding Stefan to CC, in the hope that he knows the answer.