From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why all the Alt bindings by default? Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:24:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <6F1ADCC148584A4A80CF9FF727BE1915@us.oracle.com> <67D259D03C5D4CEEB3735689FE31215A@us.oracle.com> <83r51zaxhg.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1319703882 11723 80.91.229.12 (27 Oct 2011 08:24:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:24:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 27 10:24:38 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLGP-00004u-Fi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:24:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60676 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLGO-0006pr-Vy for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLGM-0006pY-23 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLGK-0001f0-VN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:47865) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLGK-0001ew-QC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:24:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJLGJ-0008HW-Rp; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 04:24:31 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Tim Cross on Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:14:22 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145636 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:14:22 +1100 > From: Tim Cross > 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?