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: Ignoring a key event completely Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 20:53:39 -0600 Message-ID: References: <20080512141606.GA17448@debian.homenet> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1210647262 24085 80.91.229.12 (13 May 2008 02:54:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 02:54:22 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 13 04:54:58 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 1JvkfI-0007yG-Iv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 04:54:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59130 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvkeZ-00067E-Ix for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JvkeJ-000679-3t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JvkeH-00066u-NT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57075 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JvkeH-00066n-Ca for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:59216 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JvkeG-0005cL-UP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 May 2008 22:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JvkeB-0004El-F8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2008 02:53:47 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 02:53:47 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2008 02:53:47 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 36 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: <20080512141606.GA17448@debian.homenet> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:53952 Archived-At: Michael Schutte wrote: > Hi everybody, > > The XKB layout I’m using [1] defines an additional modifier, the > Navigation key. Whenever I press it, Emacs responds by beeping and > printing “ is undefined”. I can suppress this by > global-set-keying it to 'ignore, but this does not turn it off > completely. In particular: > > * Hitting the key still interrupts Isearch, which is very annoying. > * M-Nav, C-Nav and C-M-Nav also need to be 'ignored, which does not > seem very elegant to me. > * Messages appearing in the echo area are nuked when I press Nav (this > is minor, of course, but you get the idea). > > So, I’m looking for a way to make Emacs completely forget about the key, > to make it as no-oppy as Shift, Ctrl, etc., but I simply can’t find out > how to do this on my own. Could anyone give me a clue? > > [1] ; grep for Mod4 I don't think I've ever been on a system that generates events like . What does Emacs display after typing `a', then the Navigation key, then `C-h l'? In any case, it looks like the Navigation key is not a modifier key like Shift, Control, etc. So perhaps something like this will work: (define-key special-event-map (kbd "") 'ignore) See the "Controlling Active Maps" and the "Special Events" nodes of the Emacs Lisp manual. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA