From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: confusion with defining keys Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:48:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <8761k8hw8s.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87mwdjsejg.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sina6h4x.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402541370 32742 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2014 02:49:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 02:49:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 12 04:49:17 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuv4i-00035X-QX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:49:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50238 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuv4i-0003vh-G8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:49:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56251) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuv4L-0003uY-3y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:49:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuv46-0006gI-LE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:48:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43247) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuv46-0006fw-BN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 22:48:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuv42-0002M5-Js for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:48:30 +0200 Original-Received: from 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com ([75.119.224.253]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:48:30 +0200 Original-Received: from monnier by 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 04:48:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75-119-224-253.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8MALLmwvJKgjciTklHuR8o9B3gA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98164 Archived-At: > It would seem there are some exceptions to that rule! Nope, you just misunderstood the rule. > (global-set-key [RET] 'newline-and-indent) ; (error "To bind the key > RET, use \"\\r\", not [RET]") What you write between [...] does not use the same syntax as what's written in "..." (and neither is the same as what's written in (kbd "...")). E.g. instead of the above, you want (global-set-key [?\r] 'newline-and-indent) Similarly [M-SPC] should be [?\M-\s] Stefan