From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Proper way to add bindings under C-x 8 Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:45:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83zgy548vr.fsf@gnu.org> References: <835z0u596d.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8010"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Apr 11 08:47:10 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lVTsE-0001yH-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 08:47:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33446 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVTsD-0006fT-28 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 02:47:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:59888) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVTqv-0006eI-BX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 02:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57856) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVTqv-000252-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 02:45:49 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:4485 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1lVTqs-00022p-LP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Apr 2021 02:45:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Howard Melman on Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:35:07 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128942 Archived-At: > From: Howard Melman > Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:35:07 -0400 > > >> (global-set-key (kbd "C-x 8 1 / 5") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "⅕"))) > >> (global-set-key (kbd "C-x 8 e c") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "✅"))) > > > > I think you want to use iso-transl-define-keys. > > Great, that worked just fine. Shouldn't it be mentioned in > one of the manuals? The preferred idioms for customizing > other keys are. It's an obscure use case, and we don't necessarily document everything in the manuals: that would make then too large. In general, you are well advised to read the source code when the documentation is missing or unclear. That's what I did to answer your question.