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Re: Redifine shortkeys?


From: Reiner Steib
Subject: Re: Redifine shortkeys?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 18:24:19 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

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 <F5> through <F9> 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.
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