Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Kai Großjohann wrote:

> Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com> writes:
>>		     (read-key-sequence "Key: " nil t)
> 
> This doesn't read long prefix key sequences.  That is, if C-c a is
> not bound yet, I can do (kbd "C-c a b c d") to bind a key, but
> read-key-sequence will stop at C-c a.
> 
> Hm.
> 
> I guess it also won't work to rebind C-x, say, since it's a prefix key.
 
How about:


	(kbd (read-string "Key (`kbd' format): "))

That seems to require the following patch; is this a known bug in `kbd'?

*** emacs-21.3/lisp/subr.el.orig	Fri Oct 18 19:21:10 2002
--- emacs-21.3/lisp/subr.el	Mon Jun  2 15:25:36 2003
***************
*** 438,444 ****
     "Convert KEYS to the internal Emacs key representation.
   KEYS should be a string constant in the format used for
   saving keyboard macros (see `insert-kbd-macro')."
!   (read-kbd-macro keys))

   (put 'keyboard-translate-table 'char-table-extra-slots 0)

--- 438,444 ----
     "Convert KEYS to the internal Emacs key representation.
   KEYS should be a string constant in the format used for
   saving keyboard macros (see `insert-kbd-macro')."
!   `(read-kbd-macro ,keys))

   (put 'keyboard-translate-table 'char-table-extra-slots 0)


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