From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Drew Adams Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Is there a way to unset all Emacs key bindings? Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 09:42:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <85ce310e-1eab-4cc8-a830-3845c833dc02@default> References: <877g9zsv6a.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1389894425 20739 80.91.229.3 (16 Jan 2014 17:47:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:47:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 16 18:47:11 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1W3r23-0000Rl-2Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 18:47:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3r22-0006id-Fi for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:47:06 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3qxv-0008UF-Mk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:43:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3qxm-0000zR-TE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:42:51 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:23360) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W3qxm-0000yg-Kd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 12:42:42 -0500 Original-Received: from ucsinet21.oracle.com (ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id s0GHgfw5004423 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:42:41 GMT Original-Received: from aserz7021.oracle.com (aserz7021.oracle.com [141.146.126.230]) by ucsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0GHgeFD016892 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:42:40 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0005.oracle.com (abhmp0005.oracle.com [141.146.116.11]) by aserz7021.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s0GHgeT3026203 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:42:40 GMT In-Reply-To: <877g9zsv6a.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8 (707110) [OL 12.0.6680.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: ucsinet21.oracle.com [156.151.31.93] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95445 Archived-At: > I have made a list of the key bindings I want. I > want to unset all other key bindings. Be aware that in Emacs every key you touch (and that has an effect) is bound to a command. That includes keys such as `a', which have command `self-insert-command' as their global key binding. Pretty much everything you do in Emacs invokes an Emacs command. Every key you press, every menu item you choose, every mouse action you perform. This is at the base of the Emacs approach (design). And most of those commands are defined in Lisp, not C, which means you can easily change their definitions, even on the fly, interactively. And you can of course easily change key bindings as well. These features are also basic to the design of Emacs. You might even say that they constitute the whole point of Emacs (as opposed to some other editors).