Re: trouble binding to <next> & <prior>

[Mirko <mvukovic@nycap.rr.com>]

On Jul 7, 2:09 pm, "Lennart Borgman (gmail)"
<lennart.borg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mirko wrote:
> > On Jul 7, 12:59 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> > wrote:
> >> Mirko <mvuko...@nycap.rr.com> writes:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> I have a following keybinding, parts of which do not work.  In
> >>> particular I am trying to bind view-previous-entry to the page-up key
> >>> on the standard PC keyboard (using Emacs 22.1).  I used both h-k and h-
> >>> l to determine that this key is identified with "<prior>" & <next>".
> >>> (defvar iop-alert-mode-map nil
> >>>   "Keymap for IOP-alert mode")
> >>> (unless iop-alert-mode-map
> >>>   (setq iop-alert-mode-map (copy-keymap text-mode-map))
> >>>   (define-key iop-alert-mode-map (kbd "<prior>") 'view-previous-entry)
> >>>   (define-key iop-alert-mode-map (kbd "<next>") 'view-next-entry)
> >>>   (define-key iop-alert-mode-map (kbd "d") 'mark-entry-for-deletion)
> >>>   (define-key iop-alert-mode-map "m" 'mark-entry-for-save))
> >>> When in a buffer with iop-alert mode, doing h-m gives me the following
> >>> output on keybindings:
> >>> ... stuff skipped
> >>> < n e           Prefix Command
> >>> < p r           Prefix Command
> >>> < n e x         Prefix Command
> >>> < p r i         Prefix Command
> >>> < n e x t       Prefix Command
> >>> < p r i o       Prefix Command
> >>> < n e x t >  view-next-entry
> >>> < p r i o r     Prefix Command
> >>> < p r i o r >        view-previous-entry
> >>> It seems <prior> and <next> are bound to the character sequence
> >>> "<prior>" and "<next>".  Pressing those characters will invoke the
> >>> commands.  But pressing the Page-up/down keys will not.
> >>> Indeed, doing a h-k shows that page-up/down are still bound to scroll
> >>> up/down.
> >>> What am I doing wrong?
> >> emacs-version   --> "22.2.1"
> >> (kbd "<prior>") --> [prior]
>
> >> if you don't get this vector with one symbol for (kbd "<prior>"),
> >> indeed you have a problem.
>
> >> --
> >> __Pascal Bourguignon__                    http://www.informatimago.com/
>
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>
> > I tried that, and I get exactly as you suggested.
>
> > (kbd "<prior>") --> [prior]
>
> > Mirko
>
> It looks like you have been doing
>
>   (define-key iop-alert-mode-map "<prior>" 'view-previous-entry)
>
> instead of
>
>   (define-key iop-alert-mode-map (kbd "<prior>") 'view-previous-entry)

Nope.  This is what I have

 (define-key iop-alert-mode-map (kbd "<prior>") 'view-previous-entry)

Thanks,

Mirko