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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Customary prefix for custom keybindings
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:44:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8771710d-4166-4bab-9240-020dc5dd159f@vy8g2000pbc.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.389.1333398085.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

By official gnu emacs manual's guideline, (info "Key Binding
Conventions") the key space for users are the function keys F5 to F9,
and 【Ctrl+c ‹letter›】. that's it.

for good practical suggestions of keyspace to use,  you might checkout

〈Emacs: How to Define Keyboard Shortcuts〉
http://xahlee.org/emacs/keyboard_shortcuts.html

 Xah

On Apr 2, 1:17 pm, Kyle Sexton <k...@mocker.org> wrote:
> All,
>
> Is there a customary prefix for custom keybindings?  For example, say I
> have a key binding that I want to setup for 'foo' mode, should I use
> something like 'C-x f <key>' or 'C-c f <key>'?  I've seen C-x and C-c
> used, but would rather not clobber other keybindings so would like to
> use the customary prefix if possible.
>
> --
> Kyle Sexton
> k...@mocker.org


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-04  4:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.389.1333398085.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-02 21:40 ` Customary prefix for custom keybindings Dan Espen
2012-04-04  4:44 ` Xah Lee [this message]
2012-04-04 18:55   ` Drew Adams
     [not found]   ` <mailman.524.1333565725.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-04 23:51     ` Xah Lee
2012-04-02 20:17 Kyle Sexton

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