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: meaning of (global-set-key [(alt ?3)] ....) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:53:28 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1169477629.336374.97290@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.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 1169531639 25243 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2007 05:53:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:53:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 23 06:53:51 2007 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 1H9EbO-0001YV-7k for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:53:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9EbN-0001LW-UG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:53:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H9Eb8-0001Jt-J8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:53:34 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H9Eb7-0001Ij-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:53:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9Eb6-0001IQ-RC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:53:32 -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 1H9Eb6-0003uT-7j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:53:32 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H9Eaw-0001Cu-1v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:53:22 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:53:22 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:53:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <1169477629.336374.97290@11g2000cwr.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:40549 Archived-At: HS wrote: > Hello! > > Does anyone here knows "what to press" to activate this keybinding? > > (global-set-key [(alt ?3)] (hot-file "~/.emacs")) > > I don't know what does the '?' means.... It means the character 3 (code 51, #o63, #x33, U+0033) instead of the integer 3. So [(alt ?3)] is the same as [?\A-3]; i.e. hold down the Alt key and press the 3 key. See the "Changing Key Bindings" node of the Emacs Lisp manual. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA