From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bypassing defining prefix keys Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:19:21 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170623993 31822 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2007 21:19:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 21:19:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs-Devel To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 04 22:19:44 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 1HDolz-0003Ab-FP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:19:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HDom0-0001zP-M5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:19:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HDolp-0001z7-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:19:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HDoll-0001xg-NU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:19:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HDoll-0001xb-H5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HDoll-0007Dq-7b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 04 Feb 2007 16:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E12102190D; Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:19:21 +0100 (CET) X-Yow: My DIGITAL WATCH has an automatic SNOOZE FEATURE!! In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 4 Feb 2007 11:58:33 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:65862 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > Here's why. In dired.el, instead of defining `*' and `%' as prefix keys= , a > shortcut is taken. `*' and `%' are each bound to nil, so that they are > undefined in `dired-mode-map', and then each of the `*-' and > `%- key sequences is bound directly in `dired-mode-map'. That= is: > > (define-key dired-mode-map "*" nil) > (define-key dired-mode-map "*/" 'dired-mark-directories) > ... > > This explains the behavior I get, but I wonder if `*' and `%' should be > defined this way. Before the remap feature existed you had to remove the existing binding for "*" (from suppress-keymap) before you could redefine it as a prefix key. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."