From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: redefine C-h Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <90694d07-c06f-49ec-a988-ef21e2c6f178@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com> References: <6c2a4df0-eaa7-4617-9cb5-94f0ca4bd888@w7g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> <24e08128-d392-4920-9433-0a4f7a522e9b@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218397250 14375 80.91.229.12 (10 Aug 2008 19:40:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:40:50 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 10 21:41:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KSGnJ-0004pi-T1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:41:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60856 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KSGmN-0002so-9w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:40:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1218393653 25514 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2008 18:40:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.22, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161074 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56423 Archived-At: On Aug 9, 9:00 am, YSK wrote: > On Aug 9, 10:14 am, Kevin Rodgers wrote: > > [C-h] is not the same thing as "\C-h". > > > Also, you need to (setq help-char ?\C-\M-h) > > I did not know that - what is the difference between [C-h] and "\C-h"? > I thought they were interchangeable. One is vector datatype, one is string datatype. the vector needs to be like this: =E2=80=9C[?\C-h]=E2=80=9D. Also, it's best to use the function =E2=80=9Ckbd=E2=80=9D for all your keby= oard defining needs. For a explanation on the various variant of syntax for key presses, see: http://xahlee.org/emacs/keystroke_rep.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84