Re: keybinding with shift key syntax. C-S-n vs C-N

["B. T. Raven" <nihil@nihilo.net>]

Xah wrote:
> On Sep 15, 12:44 pm, Oleksandr Gavenko <gaven...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I try all write. Same behavior
>> (GNU Emacs 22.1.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-06-02 on RELEASE).
>>
>> (global-set-key (kbd "M-S-n") 'f1) do not define key binding, but
>> (global-set-key (kbd "M-n") 'f2) do for both M-n and M-N.
> 
> I might have miscommunicated. I try again:
> 
> I want to define a keybinding with the Shift down. e.g. Ctrl+Shift+n.
> 
> In emacs, it appears there are 2 notations that can be used.
> 
> 1. (kbd "C-S-n")
> 2. (kbd "C-N")
> 
> however, this does not seems to work property.
> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> 
> ☄
> 
> ---------------------
> 
> This seems to be a bug.
> 
> i'm trying to set keybindings for both Ctrl+n and Ctrl+Shift+n, by:
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-N") 'f1)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-n") 'f2)
> 
> however, that doesn't work.
> Emacs will take both Ctrl+Shift+n and Ctrl+Shift+n to be whichever is
> evaluated last. In this case, f2.
> But the following works:
> 
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-S-n") 'f1)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-n") 'f2)
> 
> This seems to contradict with Meta's ways. That is (kbd "M-N") works
> but not (kbd "M-S-n").
> 
> I filed a bug but no response. Can anyone reproduce this?
> 
>   Xah
> ∑ http://xahlee.org/
> ☄

Vector notation also works reliably, at least in version 22. I have this 
in my .emacs:

(global-set-key [(control f)] 'find-function-at-point)
(global-set-key [(shift control f)] 'find-variable-at-point)


Ed