From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Howard Melman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Proper way to add bindings under C-x 8 Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:35:07 -0400 Message-ID: References: <835z0u596d.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31497"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (darwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:FzUJdm+MDV2yk8F4EHjAejQzz68= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 10 23:35:49 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lVLGf-00086y-HS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 23:35:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55290 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVLGe-0006bk-IU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:35:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45870) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVLG7-0006bd-Qn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:54140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lVLG6-0003UA-EU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 17:35:15 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lVLG3-0007TU-QP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Apr 2021 23:35:11 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: 5 X-Spam_score: 0.5 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (0.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD=1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128936 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> I'd like to add some things to the `C-x 8' prefix and am >> curious as to the proper way to do it. I'm interested in >> adding more fractions similar to `C-x 8 1 / 2' and in adding >> another prefix for my commonly used emojis as `C-x 8 e ...' >> >> With a normal keymap I know I could do something like this: >> >> (global-set-key (kbd "C-x 8 1 / 5") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "⅕"))) >> (global-set-key (kbd "C-x 8 e c") (lambda () (interactive) (insert "✅"))) > > I think you want to use iso-transl-define-keys. Great, that worked just fine. Shouldn't it be mentioned in one of the manuals? The preferred idioms for customizing other keys are. -- Howard