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Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode |
Date: |
22 Dec 2001 00:04:39 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
address@hidden (Kai GroÃjohann) writes:
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
> > I don't see why one kind of obscure side-effect like having
> > global-set-key modify function-key-map (which may break a lot of
> > standard keymaps) is any better that another kind of side-effect like
> > having global-set-key look for mappings to DEL in function-key-map (to
> > guard against just that).
>
> I've now thought some more about it, and I almost thought you were
> right. But now I realized that the situation in Emacs is not so
> complicated, it only needs to be explained correctly:
>
Thanks Kai!
I stand corrected - modifying global-map doesn't modify function-key-map
as I thought - it just has the same effect...
> On the one hand you have local and global keymaps, and if a key is
> not bound in the local map, then Emacs looks in the global map.
>
> In a similar manner you can have function-key-map: if a key is not
> bound in the local nor the global map, then Emacs looks in
> function-key-map and executes the kbd macro found there. (Well, I
> expect most entries in function-key-map are kbd macros.)
>
> Maybe what makes it confusing is that function-key-map has a specific
> purpose.
And is used for something else... ?
I don't know, but maybe it would make more sense to put those
mappings into something similar to the keyboard-translate-table
which is done FIRST rather than "MAYBE LATER".
It might help debugging such problems if it was possible to lookup a
given key (sequence) and get a complete break-down of what maps are
involved in resolving that key (sequence) into a command.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, (continued)
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/20
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/20
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kai GroÃjohann, 2001/12/20
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/20
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kai GroÃjohann, 2001/12/21
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/23
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kai GroÃjohann, 2001/12/21
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/21
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/23
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kai GroÃjohann, 2001/12/21
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kai GroÃjohann, 2001/12/22
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/22
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kai Großjohann, 2001/12/23
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/23
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kai Großjohann, 2001/12/25
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/25
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Richard Stallman, 2001/12/26
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kai Großjohann, 2001/12/26
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Kim F. Storm, 2001/12/26
- Re: Proposal: Bind backspace and delete like DEL in view-mode, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/27