Re: emacs keybinding syntaxes bewilderment

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:

Hi!

> I am using emacs for the last 15 years but every time I try to do a
> define-key or global-set-key, I have to fish around in the info pages
> to get the key syntax right.

Ok, there are a lot of alternatives, but with `kbd' you're always on the
safe side.  Simply do `C-h k <key you want to bind>'.  That will show
you the right synctax for `kbd'.

Example: `C-h k C-c M-t' echoes

  C-c M-t is undefined

So you cold use

  (define-key foo-bar-map (kbd "C-c M-t") 'some-command)

Bye,
Tassilo