From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Caveats on remapping keys Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 16:31:58 -0700 Message-ID: <396qviF5ua3feU1@individual.net> References: <112rvtvmgdkphb1@news.supernews.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 1110324927 17530 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 23:35:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 23:35:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 09 00:35:27 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8oEU-00015W-03 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 00:35:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8oT2-0005zL-J1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:50:24 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net YvXpUPKpQvPRlS+SnivyqAfAIfl918RWwxxHlbJwpdoTX0IxA= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <112rvtvmgdkphb1@news.supernews.com> Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129108 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24658 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24658 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