Re: Creating custom key maps for stock bindings

[Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>]

On 1/20/20 4:10 PM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> it occurs to me that I could rebind existing
>> singleton modifier key into something like this
>> (simple examples only):
>>
>> tj-control-keymap, containing all the commands which have a control-
>> char combinations
>>
>> tj-alt-keymap, containing all the commands which have a alt-char
>> combinations
>>
>> tj-control-alt-keymap, containing all the commands which have a
>> control-alt-char combinations
>>
>> The question I have, to avoid possible unforeseen problems down the
>> road, do I need to unset all of these keys before rebinding them to
>> custom keymaps?
> A modifier key is not, by itself, a key sequence.
> So you can't bind, say, `C-' to `tj-control-keymap'.
Understood about the modifiers.
> But you can certainly bind each of the maps you mention
> to a real key sequence, which could be a single key
> (other than a modifier key).
Good.
> And in that case, no, you don't need to unset any
> existing key bindings.  (Of course, if the key you
> bind one of those maps to is already bound to some
> command or another keymap then it will no longer
> be available for that original binding, if you
Cool.
> rebind it.)
>
> See, for example, the value of variable `ctl-x-map',
> which is bound to all of the key sequences that start
> with `C-x'.

I see no utility in rebinding such sequences. With which-key, pressing 
c-x and waiting a couple of seconds invokes a buffer with descriptions 
of all sequences starting with c-x.

I just want to list out for sequences with simpler modifiers, C-char, 
C-M-char, M-char, Super-char and hyper-char.

Looks good to go.

Thanks Drew

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Tim
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