From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Binding C-i without losing functionality Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:30:17 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1224840967.664379@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <793203.22951.qm@web54112.mail.re2.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224841422 873 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 09:43:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:43:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 11:44:36 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KtJDW-0008Ae-1U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:44:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53106 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtJCP-0004Sm-NK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:43:17 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!newsfeed0.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.k-dsl.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1224840993 1191 143.93.54.11 (24 Oct 2008 09:36:33 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 09:36:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-200-231.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163777 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:59118 Archived-At: Paul R wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:56:03 -0700 (PDT), Joseph Peterson said: > > Joseph> Hello all, I'm trying to bind C-i to isearch-forward, but I'm > Joseph> having some problems. > > Some devices are known to treat C-i and TAB as the same signal, as > well as C-m and RET. I think this is why it is not so easy to > dissociate them in emacs, even when your device allows it. > This looks like the answer : ,----[ (info "(elisp)Function Keys") ] | In ASCII, `C-i' and are the same character. If the terminal | can distinguish between them, Emacs conveys the distinction to | Lisp programs by representing the former as the integer 9, and the | latter as the symbol `tab'. | | Most of the time, it's not useful to distinguish the two. So | normally `function-key-map' (*note Translation Keymaps::) is set | up to map `tab' into 9. Thus, a key binding for character code 9 | (the character `C-i') also applies to `tab'. Likewise for the | other symbols in this group. The function `read-char' likewise | converts these events into characters. `---- (member '(tab . [9]) function-keymap) -ap