From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs keybinding syntaxes bewilderment Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 08:48:45 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <19df9387-2846-403c-a86d-d361f10645dd@d27g2000prf.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 1197769637 22991 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2007 01:47:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 01:47:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 16 02:47:28 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 1J3ibG-0006LS-0u for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:47:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J3ib5-0001u3-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Dec 2007 20:47:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help, comp.emacs Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.29.41 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1197737326 8012 127.0.0.1 (15 Dec 2007 16:48:46 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:48:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.29.41; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070508 Iceweasel/2.0.0.4 (Debian-2.0.0.4-0etch1), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:154672 comp.emacs:95963 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:50100 Archived-At: On Dec 15, 3:24 am, Xah Lee wrote: > recently i took some time to study the various syntax variations for > keybinding in emacs. > Here's a list: > : > : Thanks Xah for an informative (for me at least) rant. Ive bookmarked it! I am using emacs for the last 15 years but every time I try to do a define-key or global-set-key, I have to fish around in the info pages to get the key syntax right.