From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris Seberino Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trouble binding Alt *by itself* to the execute-extended-command...(Alt-x and ESC-x work fine.) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 13:50:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <58a9bc5e-0db8-4bbb-95b7-5a7ca300e328@googlegroups.com> References: <6a969c8d-e606-4143-afd1-83ee32c82aeb@googlegroups.com> <85b6caa3-a637-401d-8a00-e49868ea8832@googlegroups.com> <87hag6v8hl.fsf@informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1373230520 17816 80.91.229.3 (7 Jul 2013 20:55:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2013 20:55:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 07 22:55:22 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UvvzN-0004m2-7P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 22:55:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42384 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UvvzM-0007PC-QE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 16:55:20 -0400 X-Received: by 10.224.41.145 with SMTP id o17mr9445340qae.3.1373230258294; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 13:50:58 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.34.133 with SMTP id z5mr418442qei.39.1373230258276; Sun, 07 Jul 2013 13:50:58 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!t19no708512qam.0!news-out.google.com!f7ni1003qai.0!nntp.google.com!t19no708510qam.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <87hag6v8hl.fsf@informatimago.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=74.194.237.26; posting-account=VkuUtQkAAADKqMjRUmZTNs7a8uCSNNy2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 74.194.237.26 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 20:50:58 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:199740 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:92007 Archived-At: On Sunday, July 7, 2013 7:51:18 AM UTC-5, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > As I proposed in my first answer, it's obviously the Execute keysym that > > should be used, to map to the execute-extended-command command. Binding the Alt key to the end goal is the logical solution. Your answer would be the BEST one if I could get it to work. The problem is I got burned out trying to make Emacs understand the lone Alt key by itself. Peter's solution was to outsource the Alt keybinding to the desktop. By avoiding fighting Emacs on this one it was doable for me. cs