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Re: [h-e-w] How can I bind to C-?
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David Vanderschel |
Subject: |
Re: [h-e-w] How can I bind to C-? |
Date: |
23 Jul 2002 22:19:26 -0500 |
On Tuesday, July 23, "Peter Milliken" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Try the key-binding guide by Jari Aalto
Specifically:
http://tiny-tools.sourceforge.net/emacs-keys.html
where it says:
6.1 Emacs info, Character Type
File: elisp, Node: Character Type
For historical reasons, Emacs treats the DEL character
as the control equivalent of ?:
?\^? => 127 ?\C-? => 127
As a result, it is currently not possible to represent
the character Control-?, which is a meaningful input
character under X. It is not easy to change this as
various Lisp files refer to DEL in this way.
So it is truly a special case which I had not
encountered before. Mystery solved. But the numeric
binding works nevertheless, so I am happy.
I erred when I thought that the redo package had bound
redo to DEL. Apparently one of my attempts to bind
redo to C-? actually succeeded in the sense that emacs
interpreted my key description as DEL. Another
mystery solved.
David V.