From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Howto: Bind Windows key as a prefix?
Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2022 16:09:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvh73viasc.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25284.32832.471566.596874@google.com> (T. V. Raman's message of "Tue, 5 Jul 2022 11:17:36 -0700")
> s-<c> is undefined for any <c>.
>
> M-x global-set-key RET
> windows+<c> RET
> command RET
> binds windows-<c>
> and asking where is <command> shows it as being on s-<c>.
>
> However calling global-set-key with "s-<c>" bombs with key-sequence
> "s-<c>" starts with non-prefix s"
`s-<c>` is the syntax generated by `key-description` and understood by
`kbd` (and the new set of functions like` key-valid-p` and
`define-keymap`) but it is not understood by `define-key`,
`global-set-key`, and friends, for which you need to use the lower-level
vector syntax:
(global-set-key [?\s-c] 'my-command)
(global-set-key [s-tab] 'my-other-command)
...
-- Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-07-05 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-05 18:17 Howto: Bind Windows key as a prefix? T.V Raman
2022-07-05 18:35 ` T.V Raman
2022-07-05 18:37 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-05 18:40 ` Akib Azmain Turja
2022-07-05 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2022-07-06 0:05 ` T.V Raman
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