From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Capture ALL keystrokes Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:32:23 +0200 Message-ID: <483EB067.8000404@gmail.com> References: <206a409a0805290336m5b3ef264qab3bedca5f040e4b@mail.gmail.com> <87hcch74b2.fsf@rimspace.net> <206a409a0805290501t5cdce3ffhb9b927e1b3d37267@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212068009 31996 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2008 13:33:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 13:33:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Pittman , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Ben Forbes Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 29 15:34:00 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K1iGL-0008UM-FC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 15:33:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38180 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1iFZ-0004mm-WE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 09:33:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1iFH-0004mP-7h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 09:32:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1iFF-0004lp-6h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 09:32:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56617 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1iFF-0004lm-2d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 09:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:49306) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K1iFE-0002xk-3R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 09:32:40 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-145-59.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.145.59]:61155 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1K1iFB-0008JO-7Q; Thu, 29 May 2008 15:32:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <206a409a0805290501t5cdce3ffhb9b927e1b3d37267@mail.gmail.com> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080529-0, 2008-05-29), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.145.59 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1K1iFB-0008JO-7Q. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1K1iFB-0008JO-7Q 4ceba079c952e279a2c8edda09f7fa13 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54360 Archived-At: Have a look at kmacro-call-macro which does something similar. It is bound to "C-x e" and you repeat it with just "e". Ben Forbes wrote: > Yes I thought my approach seemed too complex. I don't think your first > suggestion will work, because I want to be able to hit AB, ABB, ABBB, > ABBBB etc, where each repeated keystroke B repeats the command. Could > you expand on the second option? It sounds promising, thanks. > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Daniel Pittman wrote: >> "Ben Forbes" writes: >> >>> When some keystroke A is entered, I set a flag, and I want this flag >>> to be unset if any keystroke is entered except some keystroke B. So >>> basically, I only want keystroke B to have any effect if it is >>> preceded by keystroke A. How can I do this? >> The standard way would be: >> >> (define-key global-map [(a)(b)] #'my-function) >> >> Alternately, make a keymap, point the `a' key to it, and then install >> handlers into it. >> >> Your approach is, in essence, "doing it wrong." >> >> Regards, >> Daniel >> >> >> >> > > >