From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looking up key myself Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:18:40 -0400 Message-ID: <87fykk9p0d.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1144765448 12908 80.91.229.2 (11 Apr 2006 14:24:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:24:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 11 16:24:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTJjg-0001fR-46 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:20:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTJjf-00023Y-J2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:20:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTJj9-0001nx-Eb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FTJj3-0001kQ-Em for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:20:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FTJj3-0001kL-42; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.74] (helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FTJnv-0007It-Mv; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.55.147.51]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060411142011.FFNK16051.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:20:11 -0400 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1C6EAD82F9; Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:18:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: M Jared Finder In-Reply-To: (M. Jared Finder's message of "Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:05:25 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:52658 gmane.emacs.help:34307 Archived-At: >> When writing my first minor mode, I was told that if I want commands >> in this minor mode able to call commands bound to the same key while >> this minor mode is not activated, I should lookup key myself. Following >> (info "(elisp)Searching Keymaps"), I write > > I suggest using minor-mode-overriding-map-alist: > (let ((minor-mode-overriding-map-alist > `((my-mode . ,(make-sparse-keymap))))) > (key-binding "a")) You'll probably want to keep other entries on minor-mode-overriding-map-alist, just in case: (let ((minor-mode-overriding-map-alist (cons `(my-mode . ,(make-sparse-keymap)) minor-mode-overriding-map-alist))) (key-binding "a")) > It's much simpler than rewriting key-binding. Another way to do it is (let ((my-mode nil)) (key-binding "a")) -- Stefan