From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: does emacs know (xev-like) when a modifier key is pressed? Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:00:36 +0100 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1347544857 6807 80.91.229.3 (13 Sep 2012 14:00:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:00:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 13 16:01:01 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TC9yW-0003QD-9o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:01:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35227 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TC9yS-0000mz-Ju for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:00:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37216) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TC9yH-0000lJ-O9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TC9yA-0006h4-3h for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:00:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-we0-f169.google.com ([74.125.82.169]:53876) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TC9y9-0006h0-TV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 10:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: by weys10 with SMTP id s10so1881177wey.0 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:00:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=pFIHhsKG2TaSpVF/myr1SMmla5q7s6LfyvkyX8eEzb8=; b=AOSS7NwDzYpxu7b1o9DNUZlmc1PbWLuCA0rpetZNftZinAgtUFf7Cl0ufoth712S2K 52RkK0vgHyuyMqRnTr44CwCr3UpwXneu4jYFsqvXUX7x30dgLp5iz7Rk6UDvVc0iuyz5 gmfoj0L4GvO/mnTMiNyzo1BrhHg8VbQ+s/n2YruzYxuUSRhCOF5YIMzNZ1Y3dByz27TB Kg7U1vZccewYFPZytIbRkL+6mO4jdXiwTe96w3kyab6zZCkuy2seBVrpQlSECZK678fi /3OIsXlh0ESTECRPeJMM9w+KlzFkcJMMFu+eAMM+6jzGNKfszPBohkQv/FM0T5efiIXj AvPQ== Original-Received: by 10.216.245.135 with SMTP id o7mr1241396wer.40.1347544836408; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:00:36 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.194.34.101 with HTTP; Thu, 13 Sep 2012 07:00:36 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 74.125.82.169 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:86744 Archived-At: I'd like to create a little mode-line "lighter" that will show which combination of modifier keys is pressed. (My keyboard has a sticky key problem, so this would help me diagnose how to unjam the keys.) Does Emacs know which modifiers are "on" at a given moment?