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: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 14:55:11 -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 1142028089 21742 80.91.229.2 (10 Mar 2006 22:01:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 10 23:01:27 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 1FHpeQ-0004HH-Qj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:59:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpeQ-0008Ug-6O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:59:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpe4-0008CB-QT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:59:37 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpe1-0007tX-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:59:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpe0-0007oy-Kc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:59:32 -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 1FHphN-0006fd-Kc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 17:03:01 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FHpc0-0003cX-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:57:29 +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 ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:57:28 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:57:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 29 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:33706 Archived-At: My first reply could have been formatted a little more clearly, and as Katsumi Yamaoka pointed out the semicolon should generally be escaped in Emacs Lisp: 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] Since and are function keys, not characters, M- and M- are modified function keys (not characters): [M-left] and [M-up] 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