Re: Setting key bindings in view-mode-hook

Re: Setting key bindings in view-mode-hook

[Johan Bockgård]

Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:

> I'd like to bind "q" in `view-mode' to `View-kill-and-leave'.
>
> I customized view-mode-hook with
>
>   (lambda nil (local-set-key "q" (quote View-kill-and-leave)))

,----
| local-set-key is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `subr'.
| (local-set-key KEY COMMAND)
| 
| Give KEY a local binding as COMMAND.
| [...]
| The binding goes in the current buffer's local map, which in most
| cases is shared with all other buffers in the same major mode.
`----

Define the key in `view-mode-map' instead.

> However, "C-h c q" in a buffer in view mode still shows View-quit.

View mode is a minor mode. Minor mode maps take precedence over the
local map (where "q" will have been defined).

-- 
Johan Bockgård

Setting key bindings in view-mode-hook

[Bill Wohler]

I'd like to bind "q" in `view-mode' to `View-kill-and-leave'.

I customized view-mode-hook with

  (lambda nil (local-set-key "q" (quote View-kill-and-leave)))

However, "C-h c q" in a buffer in view mode still shows View-quit.

What gives? How come my setting isn't honored?

This is in recent CVS snapshot of Emacs 22, but a quick check reveals
that this Emacs 21 shows the same behavior.

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