From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs hyper key Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:43:09 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <878wwlqtki.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: <2e67d3af-2b19-4b72-9496-ed6104a63e71@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214941338 25774 80.91.229.12 (1 Jul 2008 19:42:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2008 19:42:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 01 21:43:04 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KDlkl-00066y-1Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:43:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36281 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDlju-0000KR-MQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:42:10 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed4-b.proxad.net!nnrp10-1.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:t4jp8Kb00Mv4f9yVRjbo7GF+1tU= Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 01 Jul 2008 21:26:08 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1214940368 news-4.free.fr 10287 88.182.134.169:49467 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159829 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55182 Archived-At: Thr4wn writes: > First of all, what actually IS the emacs hyper key? the emacs meta key > seems to just be mod1, but I can't seem to figure out what emacs will > interpret as the hyper key. right now, my left-windoze button is > assigned to be Super_L. I tried mapping Super_L to mod1 (whereupon > emacs interpreted it as meta, and I could use it just like meta). Then > I mapped Super_L to mod2, mod3, mod4, and mod5 (making sure that I > removed the previous binding each time); emacs acted like it did not > even know that button existed (ie after executing C-h k , pressing > 'a' returned binding for 'a' and pressing L-Windoze button and 'a' > also returned the binding for 'a' (self-insert)). > > Looking back over some old .emacs file I have, I used define-key but > the KEY arguments were things like [166...], but I do not even > recognize that notation anymore and I don't think that notation works > across different computers. > > so... > > what does emacs interpret as hyper? > what is that other notation I used in define-key? > > > I have a more recent version of Debian. M-x apropos RET hyper RET This is specified by: x-hyper-keysym Usually, it's Hyper_L and Hyper_R. You can choose what key generate these keysyms with xmodmap(1). -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ THIS IS A 100% MATTER PRODUCT: In the unlikely event that this merchandise should contact antimatter in any form, a catastrophic explosion will result.