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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: How to truly unbind global bindings?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:13:20 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <98be95d8-086a-4a28-aa34-937c53e2c4de@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKu-7WxOuGJbHyBM9P1Hfuvv1dAG15z7SVukdedWuOCyovAs1w@mail.gmail.com>

>> Why do you want to do this?  (Doesn't sound advisable, to me.)
>> Perhaps if you describe your use case/scenario, people will
>> have something useful to suggest.  I cannot imagine why anyone
>> would try to replace the `global-map' with a new, sparse keymap.
>
> Easy. I almost don't use Emacs default key bindings. I have
> highly customized layer on top of Evil, where I have either
> rewritten or extended certain text object, operators, and
> commands. Evil default keymaps were also wiped out and the
> keys were totally rearranged by myself too. In other words,
> I used evil as a framework to develop my own modal text
> editing approach. Those essential commands which I might
> need from plain Emacs I would just carefully map to those
> keys which I want once again, and it's not that many of them.
> The rest (like 99%) default mappings are irritating noise to me.
> Minimalism and pragmatism FTW.

I see.  Thanks for the background.  Hopefully, someone will be
able to help.



  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-25 16:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-25 11:09 How to truly unbind global bindings? Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-25 12:16 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-25 15:43   ` Drew Adams
2014-11-25 16:09     ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-25 16:13       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2014-11-25 19:04         ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-25 19:31           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-25 19:39             ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-25 19:50               ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-25 20:00                 ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-25 20:34                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-11-25 21:05                     ` Alexander Shukaev
2014-11-26  2:57                   ` Yuri Khan
2014-11-26  9:33                     ` Alexander Shukaev

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