From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "seberino@spawar.navy.mil" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Possible to rebind C-m to a function? (like any other control key combo?) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:43:11 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <58193073-f789-44d7-8671-af233c1cc432@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <8fcfe2f5-e707-424e-9896-bd0683fc94a3@s9g2000prg.googlegroups.com> <008087bb-f8b6-44b2-a123-d31a0542e368@r10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227904850 26861 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2008 20:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 21:41:53 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6A9x-0007dA-39 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:41:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38654 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6A8n-0002tE-BH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:40:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.26.25.51 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1227901391 4943 127.0.0.1 (28 Nov 2008 19:43:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:43:11 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.26.25.51; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:164870 comp.emacs:97405 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:60201 Archived-At: On Nov 28, 6:04=A0am, Xah Lee wrote: > On Nov 27, 11:30 pm, "seber...@spawar.navy.mil" > > wrote: > > There seems to be some special use for C-m as I cannot rebind it to a > > function of my choosing like start-kbd-macro. > > > Is there anyway to make C-m into a "normal" combo I can bind like all > > the others? > > there are ways but that gets into pretty hairy emacs customization. > > Ctrl+m is same as Enter in emacs. Best to avoid rebinding it. > Similar is Ctrl+i and Tab key. Thanks. If someone had done the work already I'd still like to do it. Why? C-i is sooo natural for an insert function and C-m is sooo natural for a macro function. Chris