changing the role of the underline and the minus-sign just in LateX-mode

Question

During the work with tex files with auctex+emacs (LateX-mode), I use more frequently _ (underline) instead of - (minus sign). The same as ^ instead of 6. The inconvenience is that I should press more frequently the shift-key.

It would be desirable to customize emacs in such a way that when emacs is in LateX-mode (and just in this mode), when I type - the the emacs types _ and when I type _ the emacs types -. i.e., the following key-bindings:

- gives _

_ gives -

6 gives ^

^ gives 6

Is it possible?

score 16 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 25 '14 at 17:27

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Something like this:

(add-hook 'LaTeX-mode-hook 'my-latex-hook)

(defun my-latex-hook ()
  (require 'tex-site)
  (define-key LaTeX-mode-map "-" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "_")))
  (define-key LaTeX-mode-map "_" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "-")))
  (define-key LaTeX-mode-map "6" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "^")))
  (define-key LaTeX-mode-map "^" (lambda () (interactive) (insert "6"))))

answered Nov 25 '14 at 17:27

abo-abo

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wonderful, your code perfectly works. – Name Nov 25 '14 at 17:34
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`(define-key LaTeX-mode-map "-" "_")` and so on should be sufficient (`"_"` is interpreted as a keyboard macro), plus this works with `TeX-electric-sub-and-superscript`. – Constantine Nov 25 '14 at 17:38
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Nope, @Constantine. What you suggest will cause recursion. – abo-abo Nov 25 '14 at 17:38
Oh, right. It does if `_` and `-` are mapped to each other. – Constantine Nov 25 '14 at 17:40

changing the role of the underline and the minus-sign just in LateX-mode

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