keybinding not working

keybinding not working

[Charles Harrison Caudill]

I have a keybinding in my .emacs file to toggle a fold when I'm on one for 
use with folding mode.  When I use folding mode in conjunction with matlab
mode, something seems to clobber that keybinding.  When I explicitly run
M-x global-set-key C-M-a folding-toggle-show-hide it *still* doesn't work.

Thanks in advance guys!

>From .emacs:

;; Folding Mode
(global-set-key "\C-\M-a" 'folding-toggle-show-hide)

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Re: keybinding not working

[David Vanderschel]

"Charles Harrison Caudill" <kungfoo@myrna.cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
news:cc03v1$9pp$1@solaria.cc.gatech.edu...
> I have a keybinding in my .emacs file to toggle a fold when I'm on one for
> use with folding mode.  When I use folding mode in conjunction with matlab
> mode, something seems to clobber that keybinding.  When I explicitly run
> M-x global-set-key C-M-a folding-toggle-show-hide it *still* doesn't work.

A minor-mode binding will still override a global
binding.  I'd suggest that you check out what is bound
to C-M-a using describe-key and then shut that down if
you can.  Failing that, you can just switch to a
different key.

Regards,
  David V.

Re: keybinding not working

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cc03v1$9pp$1@solaria.cc.gatech.edu>,
 Charles Harrison Caudill <kungfoo@myrna.cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> I have a keybinding in my .emacs file to toggle a fold when I'm on one for 
> use with folding mode.  When I use folding mode in conjunction with matlab
> mode, something seems to clobber that keybinding.  When I explicitly run
> M-x global-set-key C-M-a folding-toggle-show-hide it *still* doesn't work.
> 
> Thanks in advance guys!
> 
> From .emacs:
> 
> ;; Folding Mode
> (global-set-key "\C-\M-a" 'folding-toggle-show-hide)

Global keybindings can be shadowed by local keybindings.  So I suspect 
that matlab-mode has a local keybinding for this sequence, and it takes 
precedence.  In fact, I think most language modes bind C-M-a -- it's 
commonly used to go to the beginning of the current function or 
procedure.  If you want to override this in a particular mode, you'll 
need to use a mode hook that removes the local binding.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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Re: keybinding not working

[Kevin Rodgers]

Charles Harrison Caudill wrote:
 > I have a keybinding in my .emacs file to toggle a fold when I'm on one for
 > use with folding mode.  When I use folding mode in conjunction with matlab
 > mode, something seems to clobber that keybinding.  When I explicitly run
 > M-x global-set-key C-M-a folding-toggle-show-hide it *still* doesn't work.
 >
 > Thanks in advance guys!
 >
 > From .emacs:
 >
 > ;; Folding Mode
 > (global-set-key "\C-\M-a" 'folding-toggle-show-hide)

Use a `C-c LETTER' key binding, which is reserved for users.  E.g.
(global-set-key "\C-ca" 'folding-toggle-show-hide)

-- 
Kevin Rodgers