From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs keybinding syntaxes bewilderment Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:12:26 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <0921c431-a59b-47e7-bab3-971c92553ae4@e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1197960043 31048 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2007 06:40:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:40:43 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 18 07:40:55 2007 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 1J4W8J-0000K4-VA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:40:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J4W80-0006ku-PX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:40:32 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help, comp.emacs Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.236.86.27 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1197958346 30197 127.0.0.1 (18 Dec 2007 06:12:26 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 06:12:26 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e6g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.236.86.27; posting-account=qPxGtQkAAADb6PWdLGiWVucht1ZDR6fn User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154741 comp.emacs:95999 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:50167 Archived-At: for those interested... just found this article http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/emacs-keys.html Author is $B!H(Bjaalto Exp$B!I(B. Written in 2002. It seems to be a comprehensive article on emacs keybindings. (far more than i would cover) >From the site, i learned about this shortcut: (global-set-key (kbd "M-i ") "$B",(B") instead of the usual (global-set-key (kbd "M-i ") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "$B",(B"))) Neat! i started few months ago to write a article explaining why are all these variations but it's currently incomplete: $B!H(BThe Confusion of Emacs's Keystroke Representation$B!I(B http://xahlee.org/emacs/keystroke_rep.html Xah xah@xahlee.org $B-t(B http://xahlee.org/