From: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Caveats on remapping keys
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:31:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <396qviF5ua3feU1@individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <112rvtvmgdkphb1@news.supernews.com>
Tim Johnson wrote:
> Being new to emacs, I've occasionally gotten a little too fast and
> lose with redifining keys. I'm considering using alt & ctrl with
> numeric keys.
>
> Now on xemacs in windows I see the following documentation
> on 'digit-argument:
> (locally bound to "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9")
> (globally bound to "M-0", "M-1", "M-2", "M-3", "M-4", "M-5", "M-6",
> "M-7", "M-8", "M-9", "M-C-0", "M-C-1", "M-C-2", "M-C-3", "M-C-4",
> "M-C-5", "M-C-6", "M-C-7", "M-C-8", "M-C-9", "C-1", "C-2", "C-3", "C-4",
> "C-5", "C-6", "C-7", "C-8", "C-nil")
>
> When I get my linux box back, I will probably be using GNU emacs, and
> if I do remap any of the keys above which are now *globally* bound,
> what are the implications?
You won't be able to use them to provide prefix arguments to commands.
For example, `M-7 C-n' moves down 7 lines, but not if M-7 is bound
to something other than digit-argument.
--
Kevin Rodgers
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-08 19:40 Caveats on remapping keys Tim Johnson
2005-03-08 23:31 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2005-03-09 3:53 ` Tim Johnson
2005-03-09 18:29 ` Neon Absentius
[not found] ` <mailman.3158.1110394885.32256.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-03-09 20:29 ` Tim Johnson
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