global-set-key C-next

global-set-key C-next

[Philip]

I want to bind the key Control+PageDown. I tried

(global-set-key (kbd "C-next") bury-buffer)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") bury-buffer)

but those don't work. How can I describe the key?

RE: global-set-key C-next

[Drew Adams]

> I want to bind the key Control+PageDown. I tried
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-next") bury-buffer)
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") bury-buffer)
> but those don't work. How can I describe the key?

(global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") 'bury-buffer) or
(global-set-key [(control next)] 'bury-buffer)

You forgot a quote.

Re: global-set-key C-next

[Philip Ganchev]

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
>> I want to bind the key Control+PageDown. I tried
>> (global-set-key (kbd "C-next") bury-buffer)
>> (global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") bury-buffer)
>> but those don't work. How can I describe the key?
>
> (global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") 'bury-buffer) or
> (global-set-key [(control next)] 'bury-buffer)
>
> You forgot a quote.

Thanks. Although I forgot a quote in my post to the list, I had the
quote in my .emacs file. It tried with both expressions and it does
not work. When I press Ctrl+PageDown, "5~" is inserted (without the
quotes).

RE: global-set-key C-next

[Drew Adams]

> >> I want to bind the key Control+PageDown. I tried
> >> (global-set-key (kbd "C-next") bury-buffer)
> >> (global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") bury-buffer)
> >> but those don't work. How can I describe the key?
> >
> > (global-set-key (kbd "C-<next>") 'bury-buffer) or
> > (global-set-key [(control next)] 'bury-buffer)
> >
> > You forgot a quote.
> 
> Thanks. Although I forgot a quote in my post to the list, I had the
> quote in my .emacs file. It tried with both expressions and it does
> not work. When I press Ctrl+PageDown, "5~" is inserted (without the
> quotes).

Dunno what to say.  Both of those work for me.  Without defining any bindings,
starting with `emacs -Q', what does `C-h k' followed by hitting Ctrl+PageDown
tell you?

Re: global-set-key C-next

[Stefan Monnier]

>> not work. When I press Ctrl+PageDown, "5~" is inserted (without the
>> quotes).

That indicates that Emacs doesn't know that what you pressed is C-down.
Apparently you're running inside a text-terminal and the byte-sequence
that the text-terminal sends for C-down is not known to Emacs.

You might want to report this problem via M-x report-emacs-bug,
specifying the text-terminal you were using, the value of the TERM
envvar, and any other data you can think of.

To fix this problem, try the following:

type: 1 1 1 1 1 C-down C-h l
The C-h l will show you the last few raw events Emacs received.  So all
the events that appear there between 1 1 1 1 1 and C-h l are the events
sent by your text-terminal when you press C-down.

Then you can tell Emacs about it with:

  (define-key input-decode-map "<thebytesequence>" [C-down]).

once this is done, hitting C-down should not cause "5~" to be inserted
any more but run some other command instead.  And C-h k C-down should
tell you something like:

   C-down (translated from <bytesequence>) runs blabla


-- Stefan

RE: global-set-key C-next

[Drew Adams]

> >> not work. When I press Ctrl+PageDown, "5~" is inserted
> 
> That indicates that Emacs doesn't know that what you pressed 
> is C-down....

FWIW, I think you meant C-next (throughout your post).
PageDown is generally the `next' key, not the `down' key.

Re: global-set-key C-next

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> not work. When I press Ctrl+PageDown, "5~" is inserted
>> That indicates that Emacs doesn't know that what you pressed 
>> is C-down....
> FWIW, I think you meant C-next (throughout your post).

Good point, sorry,


        Stefan