binding flyspell-correct-word to a key?

binding flyspell-correct-word to a key?

[emacs user]

would anyone happen to know how to bind flyspell-correct-word to a key
under xterm with no X-windows?  thanks...  EU

Re: binding flyspell-correct-word to a key?

[Kevin Rodgers]

emacs user wrote:
> would anyone happen to know how to bind flyspell-correct-word to a key
> under xterm with no X-windows?  thanks...  EU

You can't, because that command requires an event argument via
(interactive "e"), and the Emacs Lisp manual explains the `e' code:

      The first or next mouse event in the key sequence that invoked the
      command.  More precisely, `e' gets events that are lists, so you
      can look at the data in the lists.  *Note Input Events::.  No I/O.

      You can use `e' more than once in a single command's interactive
      specification.  If the key sequence that invoked the command has N
      events that are lists, the Nth `e' provides the Nth such event.
      Events that are not lists, such as function keys and ASCII
      characters, do not count where `e' is concerned.

Maybe you could define a new command that calls flyspell-correct-word
with a synthetic generated event, and then bind the new command to a 
key.  (The event is passed to mouse-set-point and flyspell-emacs-popup,
so it would have to satisfy whatever requirements/assumptions those
functions have.)

-- 
Kevin

Re: binding flyspell-correct-word to a key?

[David Hansen]

On Fri, 19 May 2006 09:41:45 -0600 Kevin Rodgers wrote:

> emacs user wrote:
>> would anyone happen to know how to bind flyspell-correct-word to a key
>> under xterm with no X-windows?  thanks...  EU
>
> You can't, because that command requires an event argument via
> (interactive "e"), and the Emacs Lisp manual explains the
> `e' code:
>
> [...]
>
> Maybe you could define a new command that calls flyspell-correct-word
> with a synthetic generated event, and then bind the new
> command to a key.  (The event is passed to mouse-set-point
> and flyspell-emacs-popup,

or just use

,----[ C-h f flyspell-auto-correct-word RET ]
| flyspell-auto-correct-word is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `flyspell.el'.
| It is bound to C-., M-TAB.
| (flyspell-auto-correct-word)
| 
| Correct the current word.
| This command proposes various successive corrections for the current word.
| 
`----

David