Re: [External] : Re: Trapping prefixes with universal argument component

[Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>]

On 8/21/21 12:08 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>>> Neither did reassigning M-kp-0
>> Hm, maybe it should be put like this: M-<kp-0> ?
>>    (define-key input-decode-map [M-<kp-0>] nil)
> The way to get such things right, assuming that your
> keyboard and Emacs can effect the key, is to do this:
>
> 1. Use `C-h k' to find out how Emacs itself describes
>     (names) the key sequence.  This tells me:
>
>     M-0 (translated from <M-kp-0>) runs the command...
>
> 2. Change that to a string by wrapping with "...":
>     "<M-kp-0>".
>
> 3. Pass that to `kbd': (kbd "<M-kp-0>")
>
> That's your answer.  And if you want to see what
> that ends up being (but you [M-kp-0]don't need to), eval
> it: the result is [M-kp-0].
>
> So you can use either (kbd "<M-kp-0>") or [M-kp-0].
Thanks Drew: I always using the kbd method and that is what I originally 
used to reassign.
It just did not work. The other side of this is that these three keys 
are effectively leaders
and I have used them as such in the past. But I'm now retired and just 
want to make things
simple. I think I will just pull the keycaps and wrap some duct tape 
over the switches.

After all, if duct tape is good enough for Red Green, it's good enough 
for me ... :)

-- 
Tim
tj49.com