From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problems binding odd C- & M-keys in Elisp Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:52:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.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 1142021842 31818 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2006 20:17:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:17:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 10 21:17:21 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHo2r-0003GF-Um for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 21:17:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHo2r-0006bA-5a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 15:17:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FHPND-0005Kf-Aa for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:56:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FHPNC-0005KE-DD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHPNC-0005KA-AK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:56:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FHPQJ-0007fS-8H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:59:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FHPM2-0001t3-Jh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.60 ([207.167.42.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Mar 2006 18:55:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.60 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: 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:33702 Archived-At: Joe Fineman wrote: > I can bind commands to the following odd combinations using M-x > global-set-key, but I cannot figure out how to express the same > bindings in Elisp for inclusion in .emacs: > > C-; ("\C-\;" gives "Invalid modifier in string") > C- ("\C-\t" gives the same) > M- > M- > > What am I missing? The [Customizing] Key Bindings node of the Emacs manual has a subnode called Init Rebinding (aka Rebinding Keys in Your Init File), which explains that non-ASCII characters such as `C-;' and `C-TAB' must be represented using the more general vector (vs. string) notation: [?\C-;] and [?\C-\t] [M-left] and [M-up] Note that since and are function keys, not characters, M- and M- are modified function keys, not characters. The Changing Key Bindings node of the Emacs Lisp manual describes an alternate syntax: '(control ?;) and '(control ?\t) or '(control tab) '(meta left) and '(meta up) Finally, there is the kbd function: (kbd "C-;") and (kbd "C-TAB") (kbd "M-") and (kbd "M-") -- Kevin Rodgers