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Re: emacs hyper key
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Pascal J. Bourguignon |
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Re: emacs hyper key |
Date: |
Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:43:09 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
Thr4wn <Seth.A.Bird@gmail.com> writes:
> First of all, what actually IS the emacs hyper key? the emacs meta key
> seems to just be mod1, but I can't seem to figure out what emacs will
> interpret as the hyper key. right now, my left-windoze button is
> assigned to be Super_L. I tried mapping Super_L to mod1 (whereupon
> emacs interpreted it as meta, and I could use it just like meta). Then
> I mapped Super_L to mod2, mod3, mod4, and mod5 (making sure that I
> removed the previous binding each time); emacs acted like it did not
> even know that button existed (ie after executing C-h k , pressing
> 'a' returned binding for 'a' and pressing L-Windoze button and 'a'
> also returned the binding for 'a' (self-insert)).
>
> Looking back over some old .emacs file I have, I used define-key but
> the KEY arguments were things like [166...], but I do not even
> recognize that notation anymore and I don't think that notation works
> across different computers.
>
> so...
>
> what does emacs interpret as hyper?
> what is that other notation I used in define-key?
>
>
> I have a more recent version of Debian.
M-x apropos RET hyper RET
This is specified by: x-hyper-keysym
Usually, it's Hyper_L and Hyper_R.
You can choose what key generate these keysyms with xmodmap(1).
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