From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ken Manheimer" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Specifying Control-= as a string? Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:15:42 -0400 Message-ID: <2cd46e7f0607191015n2c975d39j631c0a6a9e3c94f2@mail.gmail.com> References: <2cd46e7f0607191006j4b8a2fat3bda91b1e941ae1b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153331865 16508 80.91.229.2 (19 Jul 2006 17:57:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 19 19:57:44 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3GIY-0006Ne-M9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3GIY-0000x3-9V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:57:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3FeD-0000RM-RX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3FeC-0000Pq-FJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3FeC-0000Pn-AB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.249.92.169] (helo=ug-out-1314.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G3FeC-0004oA-LP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:15:44 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id u2so428387uge for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:15:43 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=k6U5zn0IH9wnFbKrL2zqmLFWcaIZAn1DByBTemwdEuNQihgLjTbPb7Z2WEsWFDnl7+vhGTaQhj9DyJjquygBcDVMgYY1L0j2Bp1R1HXaPpt944Pj9vSwxnBfTzY/ZdqwOOAIEjQzcs2fCuKGN/KMnOuUU5wfkxmuRm+nCno/jG0= Original-Received: by 10.78.166.7 with SMTP id o7mr553022hue; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:15:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.202.13 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jul 2006 10:15:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "Emacs Help Community" In-Reply-To: <2cd46e7f0607191006j4b8a2fat3bda91b1e941ae1b@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 13:57:11 -0400 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:36091 Archived-At: is there any way to specify the one-character key sequence: [(control =)] as a lisp string? the strings "\C-=" and "\^=" complain about "Invalid modifier in string". this question is mostly academic, at this point. i was thinking about using it key as a binding in a keymap, but eventually realized that regular (non-window-system) ttys won't pass it as input. though i've given up on that, i'd like to better understand the story here, and am curious about whether there's any way to express it as a string, or whether it's just a bad idea in principle (BIiP). thanks for any clues! ken http://myriadicity.net