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: global-set-key not global? Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 12:18:28 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <4027DD04.6030301@yahoo.com> References: <87isihvgvw.fsf@emptyhost.emptydomain.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1076355113 29414 80.91.224.253 (9 Feb 2004 19:31:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 19:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 09 20:31:49 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AqH8G-0007cZ-00 for ; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 20:31:48 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AqH8D-00019J-NP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Feb 2004 14:31:45 -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: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1076354313 37927611 D 170.207.51.80 ([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:120787 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:16735 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16735 Kai Grossjohann wrote: > Emory Smith writes: >>On Feb 5, 2004, at 12:35 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>>im using the following in my .emacs: >>>>(global-set-key "\C-j" 'bs-cycle-next) >>>>(global-set-key "\M-j" 'bs-cycle-previous) >>>> >>>>but a number of major modes still seem to have C-j bound to >>>>insert-newline. >>>>it works fine if i use local-set-key inside the add-hook for every >>>>mode, but >>>>seems like i shouldnt have to do this. >>> >>>Indeed. Report those things as bugs. >> >>so a local keymap entry is not supposed to override a global one? > > No. But the global bindings for C-j and M-j should work for all > modes, so that there is no need for a mode to bind C-j and M-j itself. > > So Stefan was only referring to these two keys. For other keys, it's > different. C-j is LFD so I can understand why Emacs might treat it specially (and presumably C-m aka RET). But what is the significance of M-j? -- Kevin Rodgers