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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why all the Alt bindings by default?
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:24:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RJLGJ-0008HW-Rp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC=50j-SgLUCUfunjbgGjdYgC8C1W5xT9kNxoSKWpaRYe79AiA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Tim Cross on Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:14:22 +1100)

> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:14:22 +1100
> From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
> Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> No, what I was asking is what happens if I do want to bind alt-R? I
> think this was answered in another post i.e. you have to 'undo' the
> key translation first.

That's false.  Just try it.  I tried this:

  M-x global-set-key RET
  Alt-R
  ignore RET

After that, "C-h c Alt-R" says

  ® (translated from A-R) runs the command ignore

> The other question is if I have defined some
> real alt bindings, how do you tell those form key translations?

Why would you need to?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-27  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-26 16:50 Why all the Alt bindings by default? Drew Adams
2011-10-26 17:02 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-26 17:13   ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 19:16     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-26 20:20       ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 21:35         ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27  1:48           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27  2:05             ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27  4:07           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-27  4:14             ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27  4:52               ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-10-27  5:35                 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27  8:24               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2011-10-27 12:19                 ` Tim Cross
2011-10-27 15:17                   ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 15:33                     ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-27 15:43                       ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 15:51                         ` Andreas Schwab
2011-10-27 16:06                           ` Drew Adams
2011-10-27 12:28                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-27 15:20                   ` Drew Adams
2011-10-28  0:25                     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 17:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-10-26 18:03   ` Drew Adams
2011-10-26 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-26 20:14   ` Drew Adams

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