Looking up and CALLING a key binding

Looking up and CALLING a key binding

[TheLonelyStar]

Hi,

I know very little elisp have basicly no practical expirience with it.

I know I can lookup a keybinding with lookup-key and similiar.
But how do I look it up and call it (execute it)?

Thanks!
nathan
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Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding

[Kevin Rodgers]

TheLonelyStar wrote:
> I know very little elisp have basicly no practical expirience with it.
> 
> I know I can lookup a keybinding with lookup-key and similiar.
> But how do I look it up and call it (execute it)?

C-h f call-interactively

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding

[Xah Lee]

On Jan 5, 6:00 am, TheLonelyStar <nabb...@lonely-star.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know very little elisp have basicly no practical expirience with it.
>
> I know I can lookup a keybinding with lookup-key and similiar.
> But how do I look it up and call it (execute it)?
>
> Thanks!
> nathan

what exactly you want to do?

are you writing a elisp program? ... or you trying to do something in
emacs?

once you know what command the binding is associated with, you can
just call the command by typing Alt+x commandName.

if you are writing elisp... once you get the command name, say it is
forward-word, then you can run it by just (forward-word) ... some
example of your case would be good to clarify.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄

Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding

[TheLonelyStar]

Hi,

I need this for the following two things:

1. I want to bind a key (the tab key) to a special function which can fail.
If the function fails, I want to call the original  binding of the key
(which is differerent depending on which mode I am in).

2. I want to bind a key to the insertion of a little code snippet.
i.E. { -> to
{
  |
}
But since in many modes the "{" and "}" keys are bound to some special
function, I want to call these keybindings for the insertions of the "{" and
"}".


Xah Lee-2 wrote:
> 
> On Jan 5, 6:00 am, TheLonelyStar <nabb...@lonely-star.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know very little elisp have basicly no practical expirience with it.
>>
>> I know I can lookup a keybinding with lookup-key and similiar.
>> But how do I look it up and call it (execute it)?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> nathan
> 
> what exactly you want to do?
> 
> are you writing a elisp program? ... or you trying to do something in
> emacs?
> 
> once you know what command the binding is associated with, you can
> just call the command by typing Alt+x commandName.
> 
> if you are writing elisp... once you get the command name, say it is
> forward-word, then you can run it by just (forward-word) ... some
> example of your case would be good to clarify.
> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> 
> ☄
> 
> 

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Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding

[Lennart Borgman]

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM, TheLonelyStar <nabble2@lonely-star.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need this for the following two things:
>
> 1. I want to bind a key (the tab key) to a special function which can fail.
> If the function fails, I want to call the original  binding of the key
> (which is differerent depending on which mode I am in).

This is what tabkey2 mode (and its predecessor) tries to do. Please
see EmacsWiki.

> 2. I want to bind a key to the insertion of a little code snippet.
> i.E. { -> to
> {
>  |
> }
> But since in many modes the "{" and "}" keys are bound to some special
> function, I want to call these keybindings for the insertions of the "{" and
> "}".

You can use a minor mode for this. Minor mode key bindings comes
before major mode.

Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding

[Xah Lee]

On Jan 6, 7:14 am, TheLonelyStar <nabb...@lonely-star.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need this for the following two things:
>
> 1. I want to bind a key (the tab key) to a special function which can fail.
> If the function fails, I want to call the original  binding of the key
> (which is differerent depending on which mode I am in).
>
> 2. I want to bind a key to the insertion of a little code snippet.
> i.E. { -> to
> {
>   |}
>
> But since in many modes the "{" and "}" keys are bound to some special
> function, I want to call these keybindings for the insertions of the "{" and
> "}".

do it like this:

(funcall (lookup-key (current-global-map) (kbd "M-r")))

this will find out the function assigned to the key “Alt+r”, then call
the function.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

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Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding

[Kevin Rodgers]

Xah Lee wrote:
> On Jan 6, 7:14 am, TheLonelyStar <nabb...@lonely-star.org> wrote:
> do it like this:
> 
> (funcall (lookup-key (current-global-map) (kbd "M-r")))
> 
> this will find out the function assigned to the key “Alt+r”, then call
> the function.

It will call the function with no arguments, so if it has required
arguments it will fail.  Use call-interactively instead of funcall
to provide any required arguments.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding

[OtherMichael]

On Jan 5, 9:00 am, TheLonelyStar <nabb...@lonely-star.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know very little elisp have basicly no practical expirience with it.
>
> I know I can lookup a keybinding with lookup-key and similiar.
> But how do I look it up and call it (execute it)?
>
> Thanks!
> nathan
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If you are trying to find WHERE a command is mapped, C-h w <command-
name> runs where-is and gives you the keystroke-sequence

If you are trying to find the NAME of a command, C-h k <keystroke-
sequence> runs describe-key and gives you the command-name mapped to
the keystroke-sequence.


Once you know the name, then you can execute it via M-x as Xah said.

--the Other michael