Re: How can I bind these two keys?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> To set it for matlab files, you'll need to know what "mode" you're using
> for them.  This is displayed on the "mode line" near the bottom of your
> screen, and for Text Mode would look something like "(Text H Fill)" -
> ignore the "H Fill" bit.
>
> Your new key sequence will be active for all buffers using this mode.
> (It is tricky to restrict it further than this.)
>
> Firstly, you need the name of the "key map" belonging to the mode.
> There's no totally systematic way of finding this, but for Text Mode it
> is `text-mode-map', for Texinfo Mode it is `texinfo-mode-map', for Emacs
> Lisp Mode it is `emacs-lisp-mode-map'.  Use C-h v, typing in your guesses
> for the name till you find it.

There's no need to look up the keymap variable.  Just do:

(add-hook 'foo-mode-hook (lambda () (local-set-key KEY COMMAND) ...))

> Then find out the name the function on C-c C-s - Use C-h c followed by
> the actual key sequence to get this.  It might be something like
> `matlab-show-info'.  You'd then bind this by writing one of the following
> Lisp forms into your .emacs:
>
>    (define-key matlab-mode-map "\C-m" 'matlab-show-info)
>    (define-key matlab-mode-map [F5] 'matlab-show-info)

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Kevin Rodgers