From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jeep Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Binding C-i without losing functionality Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:13:05 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <793203.22951.qm@web54112.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <1224840967.664379@arno.fh-trier.de> <1224870207.745136@arno.fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224939277 11197 80.91.229.12 (25 Oct 2008 12:54:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 12:54:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 25 14:55:38 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Ktig5-0007W2-Un for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:55:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48817 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ktif0-0003m1-5h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:54:30 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.232.215.249 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1224911586 2546 127.0.0.1 (25 Oct 2008 05:13:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r37g2000prr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=98.232.215.249; posting-account=lPSS1gkAAAAbbdEYVg9VtFxAWIpjp47b User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080915 Firefox/2.0.0.17 Flock/1.2.6, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163810 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 08:51:06 -0400 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:59158 Archived-At: > 1. Don't translate tab into C-i. > (define-key function-key-map [tab] nil) > 2. Swap the meanings of tab and C-i. > (define-key key-translation-map [9] [tab]) > (define-key key-translation-map [tab] [9]) > 3. Bind tab (which is now actually C-i) > (global-set-key [tab] 'isearch-forward) I really do appreciate the help and I'm sorry that I'm being a bit dense, but I want to understand this. This works for what I want to do, but I still don't grok it. I understand all the steps, but now... if I want to reassign the tab key, how would I go about doing that? Everything I try seems to fail, just like it did before for C-i. I've been reading info for hours now and I understand a lot more about emacs, but this still bothers me. Thanks a lot. -JEEP