From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: don't hard-code keys
Date: Sun, 02 May 2021 19:33:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgxdoxah.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAFsi02TeqDgt=fjdGc3UjQN4CUx7pUKhpjshYCY9-dZX7qoNAA@mail.gmail.com
Thibaut Verron wrote:
>> ‘\[COMMAND]’
>> stands for a key sequence that will invoke COMMAND, or ‘M-x
>> COMMAND’ if COMMAND has no key bindings.
>>
>> sounds like what I want but
>>
>> (substitute-command-keys "\[universal-argument]")
>>
>> :(
>
> You need to escape the backslash, otherwise \[ just becomes
> [ in the string.
Wo-ho!
(substitute-command-keys "\\[universal-argument]") ; C-u
:)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-02 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-01 22:35 don't hard-code keys Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-02 7:13 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-05-02 14:44 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-05-02 17:28 ` Thibaut Verron
2021-05-02 17:33 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-05-02 17:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
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