From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: key binding question Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:35:30 +0100 Message-ID: <472BD062.90706@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194053767 2545 80.91.229.12 (3 Nov 2007 01:36:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2007 01:36:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 03 02:36:08 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Io7vY-0002gg-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:35:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Io7vO-0003Nk-00 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:35:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Io7vK-0003KR-N6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Io7vJ-0003Ge-3G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:35:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Io7vI-0003GS-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Io7vI-0006g2-Rz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:35:41 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-148-228.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.148.228]:63529 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Io7vG-0002rb-8W; Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:35:38 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 071102-1, 2007-11-02), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.148.228 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Io7vG-0002rb-8W. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Io7vG-0002rb-8W 53933dd07d4c92c6589396d3dc7541c4 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82392 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > I have a user variable `foo' whose value has the same form as a key-sequence > argument to `define-key'. That's all I know. > > So, for example, `foo' might have value [S-iso-lefftab] or "\C-e" or [?\C-x > ?] or "^E" (i.e. Control-E) or whatever might be acceptable to `define-key'. > > How can I, in Lisp, bind command `bar' to `foo's key, but with the Control > and Meta modifiers added. So, for example, if `foo' = [S-iso-lefftab], then > the code would bind `bar' to [C-M-S-iso-lefttab]. > > If this is too difficult, suppose that `foo's value were guaranteed to > always be a vector - same question. > > Can anyone help with this? I think you can do it with key-description and kbd. And some work.