Re: Setting auto-indentation of braces

[Kevin Rodgers]

Juha Nieminen wrote:
> Juha Nieminen wrote:
> > Kevin Rodgers kirjoitti:
> > > (global-set-key (kbd "M-7") "{")
> >   (global-set-key "M-7" "{") seems to work as well.
> >
> >   This is exactly what I was looking for. I didn't know you could give
> > directly a string to global-set-key, rather than a command (as I
> > mentioned, my knowledge of elisp is next to nil).
>
>   New problem: When I do that, and then press ctrl-s to start a search
> and press the key combination in question, rather than inserting { in
> the search area at the bottom of the window, it instead cancels the
> search and inserts the { in the current buffer, as if I hadn't started a
> search at all.
>
>   Why is it doing that?

Because when you've typed C-s, the global keymap is not the highest
precedence keymap that has bound M-7: isearch-mode-map is, and it
binds all escape sequences (to which Meta-prefixed characters are
translated) to isearch-other-meta-char.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA