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 19:37:37 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1224870207.745136@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <793203.22951.qm@web54112.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <1224840967.664379@arno.fh-trier.de> 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 1224873658 21436 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 18:40:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:40:58 +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 20:41:59 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 1KtRbd-0007mf-46 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:41:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44873 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtRaX-0006xG-Et for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:40:45 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1224870234 8334 143.93.54.11 (24 Oct 2008 17:43:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:43:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-202-167.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163796 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:59138 Archived-At: jeep wrote: > On Oct 24, 2:30 am, Andreas Politz wrote: >> (member '(tab . [9]) function-keymap) > > Would you mind explaining this a little? I cannot evaluate that in > emacs. And I don't understand what it's supposed to do. > > Thanks, > -JEEP I forgot a hyphen. The thing is called `function-key-map'. (member '(tab . [9]) function-key-map) After reading the mentioned info page (what you should have done as well) , I would do it like so: 1. Don't translate tab into C-i. (define-key function-key-map [tab] nil) 2. Swap the meanings of tab and C-i. (define-key key-translation-map [9] [tab]) (define-key key-translation-map [tab] [9]) 3. Bind tab (which is now actually C-i) (global-set-key [tab] 'isearch-forward) Note that I am an emacs newbie as well, so I can't tell what sideeffects this has. But it seems to work. Unless the system can't differentiate this 2 keys, like in an xterm. -ap