Re: Ctrl-[ ?

[Jean-Christophe Helary <jean.christophe.helary@traduction-libre.org>]

> On Jun 8, 2019, at 23:03, <tomas@tuxteam.de> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 08, 2019 at 10:54:17PM +0900, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 8, 2019, at 22:30, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> We have an enormously complex piece of software on
>>> our hands, and we have no better choice than going the "inconvenient"
>>> ways when we want to rebind an unusual key.
>> 
>> In all honesty:
>> 
>> (define-key input-decode-map "\C-[" [C-left-bracket])
>> (define-key global-map [C-left-bracket] 'myfunction)
>> 
>> is not inconvenient at all. What is inconvenient is the discovery process.
> 
> Then documentation is the way forward, perhaps?

I think so.

>> Knowing what I know about emacs (which is above the casual user) and even with the willingness to go through the manual, it would have been (it *has* been) impossible for me to find that solution.
>> 
>> Now, what I'd love to know is what are the other "unusual" keys, because as a group, they deserve a few more lines in the manual.
> 
> A good set of candidates would be all those control characters
> (the first 31 in man ascii(7)) which are customarily bound
> to a key (like CTRL-C, aka ETX, CTRL-\, aka FS, and so on).
> 
> Care to compile a list?

Sure. I'll try them and see if I can rebind them "normally" or if I have to use the above method.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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