From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jeep Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Binding C-i without losing functionality Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:29:24 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <793203.22951.qm@web54112.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <1224840967.664379@arno.fh-trier.de> <1224870207.745136@arno.fh-trier.de> <1224929035.544187@arno.fh-trier.de> 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 1225258928 27157 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2008 05:42:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:42:08 +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 Oct 29 06:43:07 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kv3pf-0001Yb-V8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:43:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39583 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kv3oZ-0004QG-Ok for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:41:55 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!a29g2000pra.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 98.232.215.249 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1225258164 20179 127.0.0.1 (29 Oct 2008 05:29:24 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 05:29:24 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a29g2000pra.googlegroups.com; posting-host=98.232.215.249; posting-account=lPSS1gkAAAAbbdEYVg9VtFxAWIpjp47b User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20080915 Firefox/2.0.0.17 Flock/1.2.6, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163886 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:59227 On Oct 25, 3:02 am, Andreas Politz wrote: > jeep wrote: > >> 1. Don't translate tab into C-i. > >> (define-key function-key-map [tab] nil) > >> 2. Swap the meanings of tab and C-i. > >> (define-key key-translation-map [9] [tab]) > >> (define-key key-translation-map [tab] [9]) > >> 3. Bind tab (which is now actually C-i) > >> (global-set-key [tab] 'isearch-forward) > > > I really do appreciate the help and I'm sorry that I'm being a bit > > dense, but I want to understand this. > > > This works for what I want to do, but I still don't grok it. I > > understand all the steps, but now... if I want to reassign the tab > > key, how would I go about doing that? Everything I try seems to fail, > > just like it did before for C-i. I've been reading info for hours now > > and I understand a lot more about emacs, but this still bothers me. > > > Thanks a lot. > > -JEEP > > What are you doing and what doesn't work ? > > -ap Sorry, I don't recall what I was doing wrong, but I managed to figure it out. I guess I just needed a day to let things soak in. Thanks! -JEEP