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: Looking for a sneaky key binding Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:44:28 -0700 Message-ID: References: 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 1173156309 16215 80.91.229.12 (6 Mar 2007 04:45:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 04:45:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 05:45:02 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 1HORXo-0005Rb-Bb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:45:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HORXn-0004BG-UH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:44:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HORXd-0004B1-4q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HORXa-0004Ap-PP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:44:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HORXa-0004Am-KP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:44:46 -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 1HORXZ-0004a2-9m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HORXO-0006Ty-T1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:44:34 +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 ; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:44:34 +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 ; Tue, 06 Mar 2007 05:44:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 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 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) In-Reply-To: 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:41701 Archived-At: Dan Bensen wrote: > After making a new command, I wanted to bind it to M-C-|. > This form didn't work: > (global-set-key 'my-command) > > where was equal to > "\M-\C-|" > "\M-\C-\|" > "|\M-\C-\||" > > on separate attempts. The error message was always > "Invalid modifier in string". See these sections of the Emacs Lisp manual: Nonprinting Characters in Strings Non-ASCII Characters in Strings Changing Key Bindings > So is there another trick somewhere that does this, > or is it not supported? Use the vector notation (Emacs manual: Rebinding Keys in Your Init File): [?\M-\C-|] -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA