From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: key bindings Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 09:56:08 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DC2B228.8020809@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1036170073 22291 80.91.224.249 (1 Nov 2002 17:01:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:01:13 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 187fAU-0005n4-00 for ; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 18:01:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 187fAO-00029U-00; Fri, 01 Nov 2002 12:01:04 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1036169771 5061637 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:106655 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:3208 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:3208 Jeff Rancier wrote: > Hello All. > > I have the function redo bound to C-M-/, in my .emacs as follows: > > (global-set-key [M-C-/] 'redo) > > The default binding for that sequence is dabbrev-completion, which I don't > use, so I thought I'd override it. But, when I execute the key sequence, > emacs runs dabbrev-completion. When I C-h k it reports dabbrev-completion, > which makes sense, but when I manually run redo, emacs reports: > > You can run the command 'redo' with > > Something appears confused (other than me!). Can someone tell me the > correct way to perform this, and have the binding persist? The angle brackets indicate that redo is bound to the M-C-/ function key, which doesn't exist. You want it bound to the meta- and control-modified / character: (global-set-key "\M-\C-/" 'redo) -- Kevin Rodgers