From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Tim Johnson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Binding Alt-n, Alt-p, ESC-n, ESC-p Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 07:26:27 -0800 Organization: AkWebsoft Message-ID: <20171030152627.GA3470@mail.akwebsoft.com> References: <20171029001328.GA19947@mail.akwebsoft.com> <8760axat24.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1509377238 21383 195.159.176.226 (30 Oct 2017 15:27:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:27:18 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.7.0 (2016-08-17) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 30 16:27:12 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1e9Bxq-0003mr-Os for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:26:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41156 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9Bxx-000324-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:27:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9BxX-00031n-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:26:42 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9BxR-0003Dk-QH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:26:39 -0400 Original-Received: from tjohnson.mtaonline.net ([64.4.232.191]:56124) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9BxR-0003D1-HT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 11:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: by linus.johnson.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id CD2432005BF; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 07:26:27 -0800 (AKDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8760axat24.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 64.4.232.191 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:114701 Archived-At: * Robert Pluim [171030 01:29]: > Tim Johnson writes: > > > Using GNU Emacs 25.1.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 > > > > I have no pressing need to know, but am just curious: > > > > Alt-n, Alt-p, ESC-n, ESC-p are undefined on my emacs. > > > > In which mode? I don't think there's a global binding for those > keys. Put another way: what did you expect them to be bound to? I had no expectations as to what they might be bound to. I surmised that it might be some historical issue. Since these key combinations are so handy, one might be tempted to use them globally. That might mean that a subsequent utilization of a mode using them would get clobbered. Would not binding these key combinations to a mode violate the conventions as laid out here: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html ? Thanks. No big deal, just curious. -- Tim http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com