Re: Is there a way to unset all Emacs key bindings?

[Kevin Rodgers]

On 1/16/14 11:14 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> (use-global-map '(keymap nil))

Or: (use-global-map (make-keymap))

And on a suitable hook: (use-local-map (make-sparse-keymap))

But according to the "Active Keymaps" node of the Emacs manual, there may be
other keymaps to disable to make emacs completely unusable:

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|    Normally the active keymaps are the `keymap' property keymap, the
| keymaps of any enabled minor modes, the current buffer's local keymap,
| and the global keymap, in that order.  Emacs searches for each input
| key sequence in all these keymaps.  *Note Searching Keymaps::, for more
| details of this procedure.
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And here is what the "Searching Keymaps" node says:

+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| After translation of event subsequences (*note Translation Keymaps::)
| Emacs looks for them in the active keymaps.  Here is a pseudo-Lisp
| description of the order and conditions for searching them:
|
|      (or (if overriding-terminal-local-map
|              (FIND-IN overriding-terminal-local-map)
|            (if overriding-local-map
|                (FIND-IN overriding-local-map)
|              (or (FIND-IN (get-char-property (point) 'keymap))
|                  (FIND-IN-ANY emulation-mode-map-alists)
|                  (FIND-IN-ANY minor-mode-overriding-map-alist)
|                  (FIND-IN-ANY minor-mode-map-alist)
|                  (if (get-text-property (point) 'local-map)
|                      (FIND-IN (get-char-property (point) 'local-map))
|                    (FIND-IN (current-local-map))))))
|          (FIND-IN (current-global-map)))
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA