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: How to bind to M-" Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:10:58 -0700 Message-ID: References: <87tz7izyyu.fsf@galatea.local> 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: ger.gmane.org 1233375097 8213 80.91.229.12 (31 Jan 2009 04:11:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:11:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 31 05:12:51 2009 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 1LT7Du-0005t3-4k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 05:12:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34730 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LT7Cb-0007zg-7Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:11:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LT7CC-0007zC-1J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:11:04 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LT7CA-0007yh-E5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:11:03 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53456 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LT7CA-0007ye-BZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:54241 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LT7C9-0001Lp-Va for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:11:02 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LT7C5-00055w-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:10:57 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:10:57 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:10:57 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) In-Reply-To: <87tz7izyyu.fsf@galatea.local> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:61785 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > Kevin Rodgers writes: > >> Mirko wrote: >>> Hello, >>> I would like to bind a command to the Escape + quote `"' character >>> sequency. >>> I tried a few combinations of "M-" and \", ?\", but none work. >>> What >>> is the official way? >> "\e\"" > > I always use kbd: (kbd "ESC \"") I sometimes do. The only 2 examples in my .emacs are (kbd "") and (kbd ""). But in general it's easier for me to understand the rules for reading key sequences than the rules for printing key sequences. > But don't you prefer M-" ? (kbd "M-\"") Yes, I do. But Mirko specifically asked for Escape. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA