Re: How to truly unbind global bindings?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:39:37 +0100
> From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
> After:
> 
> (use-global-map (make-sparse-keymap))
> 
> I lost:
> 
>     Global Bindings:
> 
>     key binding
>     --- -------
>     
> 
>     SPC .. ~ self-insert-command
>     \200 .. self-insert-command
>     \200 .. \377 self-insert-command
> 
> which is needed for typing.
> 
> I will have to add them back from my configuration. What are symbols starting
> from 0200 mean?

Like I said: single-byte non-ASCII characters.

> And do I really need them in the usual workflow?

Not sure what "the usual workflow" means.

> Or restoring ASCII would be enough?

Probably enough.

> Why some of them are protected with MSDOS preprocessor check?

Because other systems use Latin-1, which start at 0240 octal, while
MS-DOS uses DOS codepages that have valid characters between 0200 and
0240.