From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Clearning a keymap completely
Date: 9 Sep 2016 09:04:28 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e3fc8sFnp5pU1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1893.1473362103.22741.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Narendra Joshi wrote:
> I need to remove all the self-insert commands in a buffer. I want to
> be able to insert text into the buffer through emacs lisp but don't
> want the user to be able to insert text. How can this be done?
Easiest way is to set the buffer to read-only, then whenever you want to
insert text programmatically, do:
```
(let ((inhibit-read-only t))
(insert-text)
...)
```
You can of course use a keymap that binds every normal key to `nil`, but
you'll have to install it in such a way that it actually overrides all
other keymaps in that buffer. You'd have to read up on keymaps in the
Elisp manual to learn how to do that.
--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
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2016-09-09 8:41 ` Clearning a keymap completely Ralf Fassel
2016-09-09 9:04 ` Joost Kremers [this message]
2016-09-04 21:40 Narendra Joshi
2016-09-04 22:27 ` Søren Pilgård
2016-09-05 3:54 ` Yuri Khan
2016-09-05 4:03 ` John Mastro
2016-09-05 6:27 ` Narendra Joshi
2016-09-05 7:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-09-06 12:53 ` Stefan Monnier
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