From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rjjd Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem binding to a key Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:14:29 GMT Organization: tds.net Message-ID: References: <4628d418$0$325$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl> <1177084488.965651.231230@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1177087042 16151 80.91.229.12 (20 Apr 2007 16:37:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:37:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 18:37:16 2007 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 1Hew6l-0002Ha-Ny for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:37:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HewBq-0004zm-9Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:42:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!elk.ncren.net!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.vt.edu!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!falcon.america.net!newspeer.tds.net!216.170.153.140.MISMATCH!newsreading01.news.tds.net!53ab2750!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <1177084488.965651.231230@n59g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.249.105 Original-X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net Original-X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1177085669 69.21.249.105 (Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:14:29 CDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:14:29 CDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:147305 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:42909 Archived-At: weber wrote: > On 20 abr, 11:54, Cecil Westerhof wrote: >> I have the following two lines in my .emacs: >> (define-key global-map "\C-cw" 'clipboard-kill-ring-save) >> (define-key global-map "\C-x\C-kw" 'clipboard-kill-ring-save) >> >> The first line is no problem, the second gives: >> error: "Key sequence C-x C-k w uses invalid prefix characters" >> >> What I understood from 'Learning GNU Emacs' is the second way, the way you >> should bind your own definitions. Why does it not work? > > Because C-k already has another definition (killing text) > You have to "undefine" C-k with something like this: > (global-set-key "\C-k" nil) > Hope it helps, > weber But doesn't Cecil need to unbind \C-x\C-k, and not merely \C-k? C-x C-k runs the command edit-kbd-macro. Regards, Bob