From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Redifine shortkeys? Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:24:19 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <1142422040.474337.182460@p10g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> <87wtevncsi.fsf@laptop.rdc1.home> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142443541 9509 80.91.229.2 (15 Mar 2006 17:25:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:25:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 15 18:25:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJZkW-00008m-HF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:25:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FJZkV-000143-Ox for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:25:27 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: mtjf/D:es1T0wHO:&CJ'ZXe"l; 3C--rw\z!{`eFwL){|]RpI+4{u25L=5C /0>KuGeTsk<~<&NE-AKV1560e!+RJeyWmSskkrJm?[vUV#66{T_m|Ae<||Ku#Mk5`y&O`n~z2; n8eP J5#2h@2eQgV@E70IY_0WlEx!"&giy{+\%h1LJox$zv@/l%ZmU4^tZA>xQpnkUBVC5.jpg#0'(+2?Rs )NAr:>3<=WxHE$ktbLysDIM5TbmHu*3 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:33805 Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 15 2006, Mathias Dahl wrote: > Many years ago I rebound stuff in Emacs. That was a bad idea. I could > recommend binding commonly used commands to the Fx keys and to use > other unbound keys, ,----[ (info "(emacs)Keymaps") ] | As a user, you can redefine any key; but it is usually best to stick | to key sequences that consist of `C-c' followed by a letter. These | keys are "reserved for users," so they won't conflict with any properly | designed Emacs extension. The function keys through are also | reserved for users. If you redefine some other key, your definition | may be overridden by certain extensions or major modes which redefine | the same key. `---- > but in most cases I avoid rebinding Emacs' stanard keys as there is > often a logic behind them that gets more useful the more you use > Emacs. ACK Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/