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: How to truly unbind global bindings? Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 08:13:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <98be95d8-086a-4a28-aa34-937c53e2c4de@default> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416932044 26291 80.91.229.3 (25 Nov 2014 16:14:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:14:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Alexander Shukaev Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 25 17:13:54 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 1XtIkU-0006gm-DM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:13:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58206 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtIkT-00076v-Of for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:13:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60608) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtIk9-00075H-Mx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:13:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtIk0-0006xq-UQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:13:33 -0500 Original-Received: from aserp1040.oracle.com ([141.146.126.69]:49936) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XtIk0-0006xm-O4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 11:13:24 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by aserp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.2) with ESMTP id sAPGDMQR016185 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:13:23 GMT Original-Received: from userz7022.oracle.com (userz7022.oracle.com [156.151.31.86]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sAPGDMc1014896 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:13:22 GMT Original-Received: from abhmp0011.oracle.com (abhmp0011.oracle.com [141.146.116.17]) by userz7022.oracle.com (8.14.5+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id sAPGDLCj008568; Tue, 25 Nov 2014 16:13:21 GMT In-Reply-To: X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Oracle Beehive Extensions for Outlook 2.0.1.8.2 (807160) [OL 12.0.6691.5000 (x86)] X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 141.146.126.69 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:101174 Archived-At: >> Why do you want to do this?=C2=A0 (Doesn't sound advisable, to me.) >> Perhaps if you describe your use case/scenario, people will >> have something useful to suggest.=C2=A0 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.