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: Redifine shortkeys? Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 11:39:27 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1142422040.474337.182460@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <87wtevncsi.fsf@laptop.rdc1.home> 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 1142448353 30386 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2006 18:45:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:45:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 19:45:50 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 1FJaz8-0002Sb-Ro for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:44:43 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJawL-0005q8-O9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:41:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJavi-0005mi-Lo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:41:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FJavb-0005i2-BD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:41:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJavb-0005hq-4k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:40:59 -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 1FJb04-0003pD-NZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FJav6-0001WQ-NT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:40:28 +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 ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:40:28 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:40:28 +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:33807 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl wrote: > I agree not messing with this but if he want to go there, here's a > start: > > For saving: > > (global-set-key (kbd "C-s") 'save-buffer) > > For searching: > > (global-set-key (kbd "C-f") 'isearch-forward) > > A problem with the latter is that the bindings that work "inside" > isearch still is the same and are more cumbersome to set (it is > possible though). (define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "C-f") 'isearch-repeat-forward) > Many years ago I rebound stuff in Emacs. That was a bad idea. I could > recommend binding commonly used commands to the Fx keys and to use > other unbound keys, but in most cases I avoid rebinding Emacs' stanard > keys as there is often a logic behind them that gets more useful the > more you use Emacs. Agreed! But there's always an exception that proves the rule: (global-set-key (kbd "C-x C-q") 'toggle-read-only) ; vc-toggle-read-only (global-set-key (kbd "C-x v q") 'vc-toggle-read-only) -- Kevin Rodgers