From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thr4wn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs hyper key Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 14:09:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <2e67d3af-2b19-4b72-9496-ed6104a63e71@f24g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <878wwlqtki.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> 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 1215034855 26199 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2008 21:40:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:40:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 02 23:41:40 2008 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 1KEA56-0004NN-0o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:41:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51513 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEA4F-00069m-7f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:40:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h1g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 42 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.254.27.75 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1215032964 7640 127.0.0.1 (2 Jul 2008 21:09:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:09:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h1g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=216.254.27.75; posting-account=yciHbgoAAAC-yiSCERRTWUTnOnw8WIwj User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Iceweasel/2.0.0.14 (Debian-2.0.0.14-2), gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159852 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:55205 Archived-At: On Jul 1, 3:43 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > Thr4wn writes: > > First of all, what actually IS the emacs hyper key? the emacs meta key > > seems to just be mod1, but I can't seem to figure out what emacs will > > interpret as the hyper key. right now, my left-windoze button is > > assigned to be Super_L. I tried mapping Super_L to mod1 (whereupon > > emacs interpreted it as meta, and I could use it just like meta). Then > > I mapped Super_L to mod2, mod3, mod4, and mod5 (making sure that I > > removed the previous binding each time); emacs acted like it did not > > even know that button existed (ie after executing C-h k , pressing > > 'a' returned binding for 'a' and pressing L-Windoze button and 'a' > > also returned the binding for 'a' (self-insert)). > > > Looking back over some old .emacs file I have, I used define-key but > > the KEY arguments were things like [166...], but I do not even > > recognize that notation anymore and I don't think that notation works > > across different computers. > > > so... > > > what does emacs interpret as hyper? > > what is that other notation I used in define-key? > > > I have a more recent version of Debian. > > M-x apropos RET hyper RET > > This is specified by: x-hyper-keysym > Usually, it's Hyper_L and Hyper_R. > > You can choose what key generate these keysyms with xmodmap(1). > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ > > THIS IS A 100% MATTER PRODUCT: In the unlikely event that this > merchandise should contact antimatter in any form, a catastrophic > explosion will result. For some reason when I apropos 'hyper' it says it couldn't find any matches. I also did ^h v x-hyper-keysym and nothing was found