Re: How to bind delete key for mutiple commands ?

[rusi]

On May 16, 9:22 pm, Deniz Dogan <de...@dogan.se> wrote:
> On 2012-05-16 11:30, codetweetie wrote:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I'm trying to bind the delete key to the following commands :
> > delete-char
> > kill-region
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> > I tried mapping "delete" key to "kill-region" using global-set-key which
> > worked fine.
> > When I again mapped "delete" to "delete-char" obviously the command got
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> > How do I map multiple commands to the same key or key-combination ?
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> > Thanks,
> > Anitha
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> Hi,
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> You need to make a new command which acts differently depending on the
> circumstances.  Define a function something like this:
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> (defun kill-region-or-delete-char ()
>    (interactive "*")
>    (if (use-region-p)
>        (kill-region (region-beginning) (region-end))
>      (delete-char 1)))
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> Then bind delete to that command.  There is most likely a better way to
> define the command so that it takes arguments into account, but this
> should get you on the right way.

Maybe you want this?
http://emacswiki.org/emacs/DeleteSelectionMode