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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Trouble binding Alt *by itself* to the execute-extended-command...(Alt-x and ESC-x work fine.)
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:51:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hag6v8hl.fsf@informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 85b6caa3-a637-401d-8a00-e49868ea8832@googlegroups.com

Chris Seberino <cseberino@gmail.com> writes:

> Thank you all for your help. I finally got it.
> In Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS with Emacs 23.3.1 I did the following:
>
> 1. Remap Alt keys to the menu key...
>
> xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = Menu"
> xmodmap -e "keycode 108 = Menu"

As I proposed in my first answer, it's obviously the Execute keysym that
should be used, to map to the execute-extended-command command.

You would bind Menu to tmm-menubar.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.  
You know you've been lisping too long when you see a recent picture of George 
Lucas and think "Wait, I thought John McCarthy was dead!" -- Dalek_Baldwin


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-07 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-06 21:18 Trouble binding Alt *by itself* to the execute-extended-command...(Alt-x and ESC-x work fine.) Chris Seberino
2013-07-06 22:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-07-06 22:21 ` Peter Dyballa
2013-07-07  2:44 ` Bob Proulx
2013-07-07  3:49 ` Yuri Khan
2013-07-07  5:08 ` Chris Seberino
2013-07-07 12:24   ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2013-07-07 12:51   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2013-07-07 20:50     ` Chris Seberino
2013-07-07 22:06       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
     [not found] ` <mailman.469.1373165078.12400.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-07-07 12:49   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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