Re: Looking for the "best" notation for key-binding

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 21.09.2012 um 01:11 schrieb Chap Harrison:

> Isn't there a single, simple, consistent way to create key bindings that will always work?

I think the vector notation is a good choice:

	(global-set-key [C-∫]		'backward-sexp)	; A-C-b
	(global-set-key [M-S-return]	'other-window)
	(global-set-key [f1 f5]		'apropos-variable)
	(global-set-key [f3]	 	'compare-windows)
	(global-set-key [A-f1]	 	'replace-string)

The commands you bind in your examples the keys are some macros (for f10 for example) or different syntax:

	(quote help-for-help) = 'quote help-for-help
	(quote [f1]) = [f1]

Entries in this syntax are usually created when using global-set-key interactively and saving the resulting bind commands.

Trying to bind the Lisp comment character ";" to anything can become tricky… In my Emacsen (23.4, 24.2.50) this works:

	(global-set-key [67108923] 'comment-indent)

The number value can be found by typing, for example in *scratch* buffer, C-q C-;. This produces a record in the *Messages* buffer you can use.

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Greetings

  Pete

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