Re: Short-circuiting keybindings?

[Stefan Monnier]

> Thank you for your suggestion.  I don't undestand the code, so I'm
> asking you to edit an example skeleton.  Let's suppose we want to
> emulate CUA mode's behavior on "C-c": if region is active, then copy
> it, otherwise keep collecting keystrokes (for instance: "C-c C-c" for
> SLIME's compile functions).  According to your suggestion, a skeleton
> could be:

>   (define-key map [?\C-c] '(menu-item "dummy" 'copy-region-as-kill
>                             :filter (lambda (binding)
>                                       (unless (region-active-p)
>                                          binding))))

> How would you correct it?  Thanks.

You should not quote `copy-region-as-kill' because you're already within
quoted data (the quote placed right before the `menu-item').
Other than that, it looks correct.


        Stefan