Re: Short-circuiting keybindings?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:
> is there a generic way to create "short-circuiting" keybindings?  I
> mean: let's say I want "C-b" to issue a command only whenever a
> condition is met, otherwise if "C-b" is a prefix key then Emacs should
> continue listening for keystrokes and execute commands when
> appropriate.

Really, to do what you have in mind, the easiest and cleanest would be
to modify the core of emacs, in the C sources.

You could add hooks, or change the mechanisms.

Notice that there's a keyboard translations that map input codes before
any other processing.  But it's probably too early for your needs.

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