Re: Why all the Alt bindings by default?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:14:22 +1100
> From: Tim Cross <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> No, what I was asking is what happens if I do want to bind alt-R? I
> think this was answered in another post i.e. you have to 'undo' the
> key translation first.

That's false.  Just try it.  I tried this:

  M-x global-set-key RET
  Alt-R
  ignore RET

After that, "C-h c Alt-R" says

  ® (translated from A-R) runs the command ignore

> The other question is if I have defined some
> real alt bindings, how do you tell those form key translations?

Why would you need to?