Re: Caveats on remapping keys

[Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com>]

Neon Absentius wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:53:34PM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote:
> 
>>Hello:
>>
>>>You won't be able to use them to provide prefix arguments to commands.
>>>For example, `M-7 C-n' moves down 7 lines, but not if M-7 is bound
>>>to something other than digit-argument.
>>
>>Correct. However, on my keyboards, 'C-7 C-n' does the same and is
>>more natural to my hands. It would appear that rebinding 'M-7' wouldn't
>>be too awful, you think?
>>
> 
> 
> I find the M-5 (for arbitrary values of 5) binding very convenient
> when I want to evaluate an expression and put the result at point, 
> M-7 M-: is easier to type than C-7 M-: similarly for commands like
> "shell-command-in-region" etc.

<grin>well, let's see..... on my linux box I map my windows key
       to F13, so I could then map F13 to 'eval-expression. F13 sets
       right next to the alt key so then I could do M-7 [F13] ......
ssoo many choices. And I really appreciate the input.
tim