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From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Alternate binding for C-a
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:11:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cwsa4oi18.fsf@pbourguignon.anevia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.4360.1238561052.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

willwillis <will.willis@gmail.com> writes:

> I've attempted several times to change C-a ( beginning-of-line ) to M-a. Does
> anyone know the elisp I'd need to put in my .emacs to make this change?
>
> (yes, I use screen if you were wondering why'd I'd want to do such a thing)

In screen, type: C-a :escape ^Z^Z RET   (type caret and Z, caret and Z)
This change screen's escape to C-z, which is bound to
iconify-or-deiconify-frame, useless in screen.

Otherwise see the other answer on how to change key bindings in emacs.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__


       reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.4360.1238561052.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-01  9:11 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2009-04-01 17:44   ` Alternate binding for C-a Jonathan Groll
     [not found]   ` <mailman.4399.1238607876.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-04-02  3:57     ` poppyer
2009-04-01  1:56 willwillis
2009-04-01  7:44 ` Tassilo Horn

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