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: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 11:29:32 -0900 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <112un5c36fb1n70@news.supernews.com> References: <112rvtvmgdkphb1@news.supernews.com> <396qviF5ua3feU1@individual.net> <112sspvaeqqhn63@news.supernews.com> 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 1110400462 28055 80.91.229.2 (9 Mar 2005 20:34:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 20:34:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 21:34:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D97on-0002Wz-Fm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:30:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D983W-0002zN-CS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:45:22 -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: Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Original-Lines: 29 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129153 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:24703 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24703 Neon Absentius wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:53:34PM -0900, Tim Johnson wrote: > >>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? >> > > > I find the M-5 (for arbitrary values of 5) binding very convenient > when I want to evaluate an expression and put the result at point, > M-7 M-: is easier to type than C-7 M-: similarly for commands like > "shell-command-in-region" etc. well, let's see..... on my linux box I map my windows key to F13, so I could then map F13 to 'eval-expression. F13 sets right next to the alt key so then I could do M-7 [F13] ...... ssoo many choices. And I really appreciate the input. tim