From: Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com>
To: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why different behaviour of concat on OSX and on Lubuntu
Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 22:42:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEySM9Ggfs5b8P6OaBb3AdvGiLi+5yPje0e9m=2gho+Z6EKVng@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mwrezvwj.fsf@web.de>
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply.
I couldn't get this to work. Being pressed for time I just changed to
(if isOSX
(global-set-key (kbd "M-§") 'overwrite-mode)
(global-set-key (kbd "M-²") 'overwrite-mode))
With kind regards,
Guido.
On 28 May 2013 22:34, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:
> Guido Van Hoecke <guivho@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Part of the code looks like this:
>> ;; check whether running on OSX
>> (setq isOSX (equal (expand-file-name "~/") "/Users/guivho/"))
>>
>> (if isOSX
>> (setq leader "§")
>> (setq leader "²"))
>>
>> (global-set-key (kbd (concat "M-" leader)) 'overwrite-mode)
>>
>> The last statement maps overwrite-mode to the M-§ sequence on my iMac.
>>
>> On the Lubuntu machine, it does not map M-² to overwrite-mode, It barks:
>>
>> (wrong-type-argument integer-or-marker-p (concat "M-" leader))
>> read-kbd-macro((concat "M-" leader)
>> [...]
>> I am puzzled why the concat does not work on lubuntu, and would like
>> to know how to code it to achieve the desired effect.
>
> `kbd' was a (quite strange) macro in Emacs 23. It changed to a function
> in Emacs 24. Your code works only in the last case. Call it a bug in
> Emacs 23.
>
> As long as you need to use both Emacs versions in parallel, you should
> be safe when you use `read-kbd-macro' instead of `kbd'. It does the
> same, but should work in both versions.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael.
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2013-05-28 18:27 Why different behaviour of concat on OSX and on Lubuntu Guido Van Hoecke
2013-05-28 20:34 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-05-29 20:42 ` Guido Van Hoecke [this message]
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