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: does not work anymore Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:56:15 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87lhj8ztr4.fsf@debian.uxu> References: <8761afnoh3.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87oao7w0te.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> <87sidjf0xw.fsf@debian.uxu> <87bnk6wug2.fsf@Equus.decebal.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425743727 28761 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2015 15:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 15:55:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 07 16:55:22 2015 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 1YUH4R-0007qJ-V3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 16:55:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35268 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUH4R-0003ZB-AT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 10:55:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:GyIbSCcYeKPVLypszMfRmOXU1co= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210772 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:103051 Archived-At: Cecil Westerhof writes: >> If Emacs says " is undefined" then it >> should be easy enough to solve this, just define >> (bind) it to do whatever you want. If you want it >> to be a key sequence probably you need to make it a >> "prefix key" as well, as in: ; step 1 - name >> (define-prefix-command 'C-o-prefix) ; step 2 - bind >> (global-set-key "\C-o" 'C-o-prefix) ; step 3 - >> normal usage as you would any key (global-set-key >> "\C-\M-j" 'scroll-left-1) ; ... > > It has nothing to do with Emacs: it is done with > xmodmap, so it is an X binding not an Emacs binding. > This is something I defined years ago (globally, so > for normal user and root user) and always worked. I > did not change anything in .xnodmap or in .emacs. So > this should not be happening, but it is. If you press a key and Emacs says it is undefined that means Emacs recognizes a key has been pressed and it recognizes the key. That key sounds like it has a special purpose in X, so you might still run into problems, but why not just try bind it to whatever functionality you wish for it? -- underground experts united