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: Looking for the "best" notation for key-binding Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 21:39:56 -0600 Message-ID: References: <505BA2B4.7090906@me.com> <505C8769.7030805@me.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350617999 32575 80.91.229.3 (19 Oct 2012 03:39:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2012 03:39:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 19 05:40:07 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TP3RO-0005IO-08 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:40:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53154 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TP3RG-0005OU-US for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:39:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54677) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TP3RA-0005Nc-PL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:39:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TP3R9-0002VJ-Rl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:39:52 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TP3R9-0002VE-LA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:39:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TP3RE-00057i-Bq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:39:56 +0200 Original-Received: from c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([71.237.25.24]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:39:56 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:39:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-71-237-25-24.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.28) Gecko/20120306 Thunderbird/3.1.20 In-Reply-To: <505C8769.7030805@me.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87324 Archived-At: On 9/21/12 9:27 AM, Chap Harrison wrote: > I don't know elisp. Is there an exhaustive list of how to express all of the key > chords using vector notation? For instance, I wouldn't have guessed that the > 'return' key was denoted by 'return' - I usually see it written RET. They are different, see the "(emacs)Named ASCII Chars" info node. > As to my problem with C-; I strongly suspect my binding is getting stomped by > C++ mode. So I'd also appreciate some guidelines on what keys to use or avoid. See the "(elisp)Key Binding Conventions" info node. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA