From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: key binding question Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:42:37 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87ejoyrwuu.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1171255400 26193 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2007 04:43:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 04:43:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 12 05:43:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HGT1z-0000hx-AR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:43:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGT1y-0004Vr-OF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGT1l-0004Vm-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HGT1i-0004Va-Rp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:42:55 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HGT1i-0004VX-Md for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:42:54 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HGT1i-0005Tu-A2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Feb 2007 23:42:54 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HGT1Y-00067F-Mh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:42:44 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:42:44 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 05:42:44 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <87ejoyrwuu.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:41115 Archived-At: Hadron wrote: > Is it to add a new key binding to be local to a specific mode by adding > a hook e.g > > > (add-hook 'html-mode-hook > (lambda () > (local-set-key [f10] 'myfunc))) > > > or to use define-key on the specific mode-map?e.g > > (define-key html-mode-map [f11] 'myfunc) > > (assume the html-mode-map variable is instantiated/inscope. > > Or to ask another way, why would you choose one over the other and what > might the pitfalls be? I use the mode hook, because I have an aversion to keymap variable names :-) and because it doesn't require the package to be loaded. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA