Re: create new key prefix

[Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 8:36 PM, ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
> On 02/19/2013 08:20 PM Tim Visher wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:26 PM, ken<gebser@mousecar.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> I've defined quite a few new keys over the years and so would like to
>>> create
>>> a new key prefix.  I.e., I want to be able to define keys such as "C-c p
>>> s",
>>> "C-c p m", etc.  So how do I tell emacs that (for all possible modes) I
>>> want
>>> "C-c p" to look for the new key definitions.
>>>
>>>  From what I've read so far, how this is done depends a lot on the
>>> particular
>>> emacs version.  Mine's 22.1.1.
>>
>>
>> `(global-set-key (kbd "C-c p m") 'func-name)` doesn't work for you?
>> The caveat to that is that modes down the line can possible shadow the
>> binding. But that's easy enough to solve with `(eval-after-load…`
>> forms.
>
> Thanks much for the reply.  I have almost no idea what you said, but it got
> me to try the code which I already wrote (which I didn't do before because I
> didn't think it would work, thought sure there was something missing).  The
> code I already wrote and left sitting there untested for a couple-three
> hours... it works!!
>
> Well that's a completely new experience for me.  B^D

LOL. Good to know.

As an aside, what are you confused about regarding what I said? Maybe
I can help clear some things up for you?

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