From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Daniel Pittman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Capture ALL keystrokes Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 21:11:45 +1000 Organization: How about yours? http://rimspace.net/resume/ Message-ID: <87hcch74b2.fsf@rimspace.net> References: <206a409a0805290336m5b3ef264qab3bedca5f040e4b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212059904 2662 80.91.229.12 (29 May 2008 11:18:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 11:18:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 29 13:19:05 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 1K1g9u-0000Fw-Vo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 13:19:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59144 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1g99-0007Ce-6M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:18:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1g8r-0007CL-A0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:17:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1K1g8q-0007Bi-E2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53909 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1K1g8q-0007Bf-Bw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60323 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1K1g8q-0007DM-3s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 07:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K1g8k-0003EB-Ub for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 May 2008 11:17:50 +0000 Original-Received: from ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net ([59.167.189.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 11:17:50 +0000 Original-Received: from daniel by ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 11:17:50 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-Distribution: bofh Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp59-167-189-244.static.internode.on.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:/LHrHcD21uVAvChH/SdyiUJVYec= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:54358 Archived-At: "Ben Forbes" writes: > When some keystroke A is entered, I set a flag, and I want this flag > to be unset if any keystroke is entered except some keystroke B. So > basically, I only want keystroke B to have any effect if it is > preceded by keystroke A. How can I do this? The standard way would be: (define-key global-map [(a)(b)] #'my-function) Alternately, make a keymap, point the `a' key to it, and then install handlers into it. Your approach is, in essence, "doing it wrong." Regards, Daniel