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From: Antoine Levitt <antoine.levitt@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Adventures in key mapping
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 15:45:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iptipt2z.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110510133113.5E0E751023A@outside.256.com

10/05/11 15:31, sdn.gnuem@mailnull.com
> I wanted to assign something to the C-, (control comma) key sequence.
> My first attempt was:
>
>
>
>     (local-set-key  "\C-,"  'some-function)

Why don't people use "kbd" more? It translates user-friendly bindings to
low-level representation.

Here, you'd just use

(local-set-key  (kbd "C-,")  'some-function)

or whatever gets reported by C-h k. No need to wander into the
intricacies of emacs key system.




      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-10 13:45 UTC|newest]

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2011-05-10 13:31 Adventures in key mapping sdn.gnuem
2011-05-10 13:45 ` Antoine Levitt [this message]

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