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Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: Looking up and CALLING a key binding |
Date: |
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 16:20:04 +0100 |
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:14 PM, TheLonelyStar <nabble2@lonely-star.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need this for the following two things:
>
> 1. I want to bind a key (the tab key) to a special function which can fail.
> If the function fails, I want to call the original binding of the key
> (which is differerent depending on which mode I am in).
This is what tabkey2 mode (and its predecessor) tries to do. Please
see EmacsWiki.
> 2. I want to bind a key to the insertion of a little code snippet.
> i.E. { -> to
> {
> |
> }
> But since in many modes the "{" and "}" keys are bound to some special
> function, I want to call these keybindings for the insertions of the "{" and
> "}".
You can use a minor mode for this. Minor mode key bindings comes
before major mode.