RE: [External] : Q1 - the keys' bindings to work more widely

[Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> I would like to have my keys (my bindings)
> working more widely so that I could trust them more. But for now some of
> them don't work. E. g. in a Help buffer C-c doesn't work as a copy
> action (though it works globally as I set). And this is not surprising.
> I understand that major modes have priority over the global one. What is
> the best idea to make my keys more reliable? One way is to change all
> the major and minor modes, but it's a big load of work and code. Another
> way is to create my own minor mode key bindings and make it be turned on
> by default, and I managed to find how it should be done ("init-value"
> and "global" should be non-nil, in the "define-minor-mode" call). So I
> hope I'm somewhere close to the solution. Here is my function call with
> an example of C-c rebinding:
> 
> (define-minor-mode ttkeys-mode "My key bindings"
> :init-value 1 :lighter " TT" :global 1
> :keymap
> '(
> ("C-c" . #'kill-ring-save)
> ("C-a" . #'mark-whole-buffer)
> )
> )
> 
> The TT mode is being shown normally, I can switch in on and off, but the
> C-c and C-a don't work as I told them to. I tried to vary signs like #
> and ', but no result. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> And, maybe there is some other advice that you could give to make my
> keys more reliable (make them work everywhere in Emacs)? Don't offer a
> CUA mode, I know about it, but it doesn't meet my needs.

See node `Key Binding Conventions' in the Elisp manual:

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Key-Binding-Conventions.html

That's `C-h i m elisp RET', then `g key binding conventions RET'.

See also the Emacs manual (`C-h r'), node `CUA Bindings'.