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: Can one define global-set-key to override mode-based keymap? Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:59:46 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1163384351.738042.95660@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com> <1163437300.821357.248580@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 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 1163440920 1062 80.91.229.2 (13 Nov 2006 18:02:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 18:02:00 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 13 19:01:58 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 1Gjg82-000294-Fc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:01:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjg81-0001l3-N3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:01:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjg7p-0001kp-1r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:01:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjg7n-0001kB-E7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:01:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjg7n-0001k1-7J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:01:39 -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 1Gjg7m-00062s-Fl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:01:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gjg7Y-00022F-Hi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:01:24 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:01:24 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:01:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) In-Reply-To: <1163437300.821357.248580@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> 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:38685 Archived-At: rgb wrote: >> Hmmm, maybe you could bind `C-n' etc. to some other character not likely >> to be bound to a command (e.g. an ISO-8859/Unicode C1 control character >> or a Unicode private use character) via keyboard-translate, then bind >> the key sequence (vector) of that unused character to `other-window'. > > I've wanted to do this but can't figure out how. Perhaps it's not > possible? I want to use keyboard-translate on named events such as > etc. > Can this be done? > If so, I must be using the wrong syntax. Could you give an example? keyboard-translate only works on characters, not arbitrary events. Maybe you can use function-key-map or key-translation-map to map such events (more precisely, a sequence) to a different event sequence. -- Kevin