Re: Reset C-, only for the org-mode case

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2021 at 9:00 PM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Reset C-, only for the org-mode case
>
> Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> >>>> Is it good enough?
> >>>>
> >>>>   (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-,") 'undefined)
> >>>>   (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-,") 'text-scale-decrease)
> >>>
> >>> "C-," in already bound in org-mode
> >>
> >> Doesn't matter, you don't have to bind it to `undefined'
> >> first :)
> >
> > So it is a bit different than with the usual "unset-key" or
> > "set-key" to nil.
> >
> > (global-set-key   (kbd "C-e") nil)
> > (global-unset-key (kbd "C-e"))
>
> ? :)

I wrote an example with global-set-key where you have to unset it first.

> What is it that you want to do? You want this?
>
>   (define-key org-mode-map (kbd "C-,") #'text-scale-decrease)
>
> Then it is enough :)

This means that define-key works a bit different than global-set-key.

> Now it is `text-scale-decrease' and it doesn't matter what it
> was before or if it was set n times to n different values...

Yes, because in org-mode the C-, was already used to do some other thing.

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