From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Caveats on remapping keys Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:53:34 -0900 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <112sspvaeqqhn63@news.supernews.com> References: <112rvtvmgdkphb1@news.supernews.com> <396qviF5ua3feU1@individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110340518 19485 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 03:55:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 03:55:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 04:55:18 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8sHw-0006Mn-UA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 04:55:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8sWY-0006hB-1z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:10:18 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!news.supernews.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <396qviF5ua3feU1@individual.net> Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 27 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129120 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24670 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24670 Kevin Rodgers wrote: >> Now on xemacs in windows I see the following documentation >> on 'digit-argument: >> (locally bound to "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9") >> (globally bound to "M-0", "M-1", "M-2", "M-3", "M-4", "M-5", "M-6", >> "M-7", "M-8", "M-9", "M-C-0", "M-C-1", "M-C-2", "M-C-3", "M-C-4", >> "M-C-5", "M-C-6", "M-C-7", "M-C-8", "M-C-9", "C-1", "C-2", "C-3", >> "C-4", "C-5", "C-6", "C-7", "C-8", "C-nil") >> >> When I get my linux box back, I will probably be using GNU emacs, and >> if I do remap any of the keys above which are now *globally* bound, >> what are the implications? > > Hello: > You won't be able to use them to provide prefix arguments to commands. > For example, `M-7 C-n' moves down 7 lines, but not if M-7 is bound > to something other than digit-argument. Correct. However, on my keyboards, 'C-7 C-n' does the same and is more natural to my hands. It would appear that rebinding 'M-7' wouldn't be too awful, you think? Thanks Kevin tim