From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: confusion with defining keys Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:49:18 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87ioo66go1.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <8761k8hw8s.fsf@yun.yagibdah.de> <87mwdjsejg.fsf@debian.uxu> <87sina6h4x.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402537824 23510 80.91.229.3 (12 Jun 2014 01:50:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2014 01:50:24 +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 Jun 12 03:50:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuu9h-0004wQ-PF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:50:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50068 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wuu9h-00026u-FA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:50:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.ecp.fr!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: SIvZRMPqRkkTHAHL6NkRuw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:H3WSd6hWzM7soYCtO835uM1Vf/4= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205892 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:98162 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Check out the below experimentation: > > (global-set-key (kbd "RET") 'newline-and-indent) ; > works (global-set-key "\r" 'newline-and-indent) ; works > (global-set-key [RET] 'newline-and-indent) ; (error "To > bind the key RET, use \"\\r\", not [RET]") > > (global-set-key (kbd "M-SPC") 'eat-space) ; works > (global-set-key "\M- " 'eat-space) ; works > (global-set-key [M-SPC] 'eat-space) ; (error "To bind > the key M-SPC, use \"\\M- \", not [M-SPC]") TAB also behaves like that (should be "\t") as well as different combinations, e.g., "\M-\r" instead of [M-R**] (but (kbd "M-RET") is fine). -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573