From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: don't hard-code keys Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 16:44:18 +0200 Message-ID: <8735v5ry9p.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <877dkirsk3.fsf@zoho.eu> <87k0ohvc7f.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg 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="14669"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:7NPT9dM+vkYsxFldA3+rikvk7/w= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun May 02 16:48:39 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 1ldDOg-0003hn-F6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 May 2021 16:48:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55784 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldDOf-0004rl-H9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 May 2021 10:48:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:50840) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldDKd-0001GO-M4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2021 10:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:53848) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ldDKb-0005AH-1V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2021 10:44:26 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ldDKZ-0009fa-7S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 May 2021 16:44:23 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:129332 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn wrote: >> But the question: how can I avoid hard-coding the C-u key >> but instead have the keybinding inserted thru a reference >> to the function, i.e. `universal-argument'? > > You mean, in the `message' call? Have a look at > > (info "(elisp) Keys in Documentation") I have it working in docstrings but not in general, for example this ‘\[COMMAND]’ stands for a key sequence that will invoke COMMAND, or ‘M-x COMMAND’ if COMMAND has no key bindings. sounds like what I want but (substitute-command-keys "\[universal-argument]") :( -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal