From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Single-use keybindings? Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:45:58 +0200 Message-ID: <861sp66d49.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87y3rgq8iy.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <86y3rf66q2.fsf@zoho.com> <87tw23m3mx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87shhmq1vd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500846416 28005 195.159.176.226 (23 Jul 2017 21:46:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 21:46:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 23 23:46:47 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZOi0-0006VM-M8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:46:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51680 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZOi5-0001Og-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:46:45 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40491) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZOhc-0001NL-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:46:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZOhY-0007ho-6n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:46:16 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=33810 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dZOhY-0007h1-08 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 17:46:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dZOhO-0004oD-Og for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 23:46:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 20 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:IbCUl884v3/1jSX1Unrz7svoNaw= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113846 Archived-At: Eric Abrahamsen wrote: > Actually, it wasn't! The transient map > disappears the first time any key is hit that > isn't in the map itself. What I wanted was to > rewire "q", and nothing but "q", until the > first time that "q" is hit. I can probably > still get what I want by fooling with the > KEEP-PRED argument to `set-transient-map', > but it's not the no-brainer I thought it was. Here is the minor-mode-that-shuts-off-itself idea. It has served me well. I wrote it in 2014 but it feels like 10 years ago. Man... http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/emacs-init/caps-back.el -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573