From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Single-use keybindings? Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 11:04:06 -0700 Message-ID: <87tw23m3mx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87y3rgq8iy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <86y3rf66q2.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500833154 27280 195.159.176.226 (23 Jul 2017 18:05:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 18:05:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 23 20:05:50 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZLGH-0006qU-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:05:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51178 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZLGN-0003OB-Df for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 14:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZLFt-0003Nr-Sy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 14:05:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZLFp-0005NH-As for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 14:05:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36644 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZLFp-0005N0-46 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 14:05:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZLFe-00050y-Qp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 20:05:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:HOBbbE2EonMuIaP7mhBm5fqcya4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113844 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > >> Maybe I should be using a minor mode that >> turns itself off after use > > You can, I've done exactly that! Create a copy > of the global-map and then > `substitute-key-definition' for a function > that, as you say, turns itself off after doing > its special thing. > > But when I did that, I didn't know of that > other thing mentioned already, which is > probably the right way to do it - only it seems > a bit complicated... If I was trying to do something more complicated, it might be worth looking into a minor mode. As it is, the transient key map is exactly what I was wanting. > If you succeed with a small snippet, feel free > to post it here! My previous message had it -- in fact, the revised version of the function didn't look a whole lot different from my original version! But it feels less fragile, and I'm more confident I'm DTRT. Eric