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From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs keybinding syntaxes bewilderment
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 00:25:46 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <256d3391-7498-4890-bc70-c02084d4b9e8@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5061.1197789814.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Dec 16, 12:22 pm, Mike Mattie <codermat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That did confuse me for a while. I decided it was time to make it at least consistent in my
> configuration. After asking for some advice I settled on (kbd). This function below takes
> the pain out of keybindings.
>
> I use it as follows:
>
> M-x insert-key-notation
>
> it then prompts for the key sequence, and generates the code.
>
> (defun insert-key-notation ()
>   "inject a complete \(kbd \"sequence\"\) with key notation for a key sequence given by prompt"
>   (interactive)
>   (insert "(kbd \"")
>   (insert (format-kbd-macro (read-key-sequence "Key? " nil t)))
>   (insert "\")")
>   )

Neat! Charming!!
But why is kbd not in the elisp manual?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-16  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-14 22:24 emacs keybinding syntaxes bewilderment Xah Lee
2007-12-14 23:15 ` B. T. Raven
2007-12-15  1:57   ` Xah Lee
2007-12-15 16:48 ` rustom
2007-12-16  7:22   ` Mike Mattie
     [not found]   ` <mailman.5061.1197789814.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-16  8:25     ` rustom [this message]
2007-12-16  8:56       ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-12-16 16:39         ` rustom
2007-12-16 19:37           ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2007-12-16 23:21             ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-16 23:33               ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-16 23:50                 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-12-17 10:17           ` Sebastian Tennant
     [not found]           ` <mailman.5091.1197886901.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-12-17 12:56             ` Romain Francoise
2007-12-17  9:38   ` Tassilo Horn
2007-12-18  6:12 ` Xah Lee
2007-12-19  2:27 ` Xah

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