From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Daniel Corbe <corbe@corbe.net>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: (global-set-key) vs (define-key)
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:14:54 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f1587ee3-6423-4ea8-882a-6da283b12de7@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wpyr3bqr.fsf@corbe.net>
> I have a suspicion that (define-key) is not allowed to override
> global bindings. Is that true?
No. `define-key' binds a key in the keymap you provide it as a
parameter. `global-set-key' binds a key in the keymap that is
the value of variable `global-map'.
So these are equivalent:
(global-set-key KEY COMMAND)
(define-key global-map KEY COMMAND)
(`C-h f' is your friend, as is `C-h r i...')
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-25 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-25 18:05 (global-set-key) vs (define-key) Daniel Corbe
2015-06-25 18:14 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-06-25 19:11 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.5675.1435259510.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-25 20:28 ` Daniel Corbe
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