Re: Curiostiy question re: keybinding ??

[William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>]

Hi Nikolaj
Thanks for your reply.

On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 22:51 +0200, Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> William Case <billlinux@rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> > It would be hard to remember what the numbers mean with out some
> > comments or a lot of memorization.
> 
> Don't bother with it.  Use describe-key and describe-function to look up
> keys, if you dynamically bind the keys.  If you define them by hand (or
> by text rather), use whatever you can read best.
> 
> > Is the first line binding style going out of use (replaced by the kbd
> > keyword) or coming in?  What would be the ^C (Ctrl) equivalent for Meta
> > -- ^M; and, Super -- ^s; and, Shift -- ^,?  What about Fx keys and
> > others?
> 
> Actually I don't think it ever was in style. The most common way I
> probably is "\C-c\M-c\S-e"\, etc.  Not everything can be expressed like
> that, though.  Using kbd is more powerful, but only the numerical form
> is complete, as some special keys (say multimedia keys...) haven't been
> assigned a name.
> 
> Check out http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/emacs-keys.html as well.

Been there lots. It was just that (to me) the nice simple "^Cc" looked
intriguing.  Personally I have been using the vector [(...)] for a
couple of years.  I will play on my scratch sheet to see what I can get
to work in the way of "...".

Thanks again for your time. 

-- 
Regards Bill,
Emacs 22.0.990.1  Fedora 7