Re: How to truly unbind global bindings?

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 20:04:23 +0100
> From: Alexander Shukaev <haroogan@gmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> 
>   for (n = 040; n < 0177; n++)
>     initial_define_key (global_map, n, "self-insert-command");
> #ifdef MSDOS
>   for (n = 0200; n < 0240; n++)
>     initial_define_key (global_map, n, "self-insert-command");
> #endif
>   for (n = 0240; n < 0400; n++)
>     initial_define_key (global_map, n, "self-insert-command");
> 
> 
> I understand that the first loop is simply pushing the printable 7-bits of
> ASCII table into the `global-map'. Could anyone elaborate what are the rest
> loops for?

Non-ASCII single-byte characters.

> Do I really need them?

I don't understand what you are trying to do enough to answer that.