Disable self-insert-command

Disable self-insert-command

[Joost Kremers]

Hi,

I've been trying to  figure out if there's a straightforward way 
to disable all self-inserting characters through a minor mode, but 
I haven't been able to find something. Two options come to mind, 
but they both don't feel "right". One would be to simply bind all 
self-inserting characters to `ignore', which seems cumbersome and 
error-prone, however. The other option that comes to mind is 
advising `self-insert-command`, though I haven't (yet) tested 
whether that would actually work and wouldn't cause any other 
problems, given that it's a primitive function.

I guess I could also make the relevant buffer read-only, but then 
every key that's not bound to something else produces a "Buffer is 
read-only" error...

Any ideas? Anything I'm overlooking?

TIA

Joost



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Re: Disable self-insert-command

[Noam Postavsky]

On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 07:13, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> wrote:

> I've been trying to  figure out if there's a straightforward way
> to disable all self-inserting characters through a minor mode,

> Any ideas? Anything I'm overlooking?

(define-key my-minor-mode-map [remap self-insert-command] 'ignore)

Re: Disable self-insert-command

[Mauro Aranda]

Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, 17 May 2019 at 07:13, Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
wrote:
>
>> I've been trying to  figure out if there's a straightforward way
>> to disable all self-inserting characters through a minor mode,
>
>> Any ideas? Anything I'm overlooking?
>
> (define-key my-minor-mode-map [remap self-insert-command] 'ignore)

Maybe suppress-keymap can help here?  It does something similar,
although it remaps to 'undefined rather than 'ignore.