From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: X11 signal to emacs Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 06:12:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1491279200 1984 195.159.176.226 (4 Apr 2017 04:13:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 04:13:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 04 06:13:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cvFq4-0007B5-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 06:13:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33859 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvFqA-0001IV-J7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:13:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42941) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvFpn-0001HF-7b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:12:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvFpi-00055A-Qm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:12:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36811 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cvFpi-00054T-Iy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 00:12:42 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cvFpX-0003iK-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Apr 2017 06:12:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:jljgmy2BpPTxq+dHX5Z4XXojawE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112683 Archived-At: raman wrote: > This is nice. Is there some X magic that will > let me combine special-event-map with > something else that then lets me bind an > action to a simple press of say the ctrl-key? Hang on a second, X? Now I see, it even says X11 in the subject. X11 is the protocol for X. Do they have signals of their own?! My answer has nothing to do with X or X11, it is plain Unix IPC, just two processes signalling each other... > Today, ctrl is a modifier -- but pressing > ctrl by itself does nothing in emacs. > If I could achieve the above, then I'd get 3 > more keys: ctrl, alt, and the windows key. Cool idea, cred if you succeed. But in general, one doesn't need more keys. It is doing something sensible with the ones you got that's the trick :) -- underground experts united .... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573 Emacs Gnus Blogomatic ......... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/blogomatic - so far: 69 Blogomatic articles - with: #moasen @ irc.freenode.net 6667