dale@AI.MIT.EDU (Dale DePriest) (09/21/89)
In GNU Emacs 18.52.10 of Mon Feb 13 1989 on snuggle (berkeley-unix) The keyboard-quit command normally bound to ^g cannot be bound to another key. I tried to use the command: (global-set-key "\177" 'keyboard-quit) to define the del key as a cancel function. This cancels the input as expected but leaves the M-x prompt and doesn't actually perform the function of keyboard-quit.
jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) (09/27/89)
In article <8909201803.AA05492@snearth.daisy.com> daisy!dale@AI.MIT.EDU (Dale DePriest) writes:
The keyboard-quit command normally bound to ^g cannot be bound to another
key. I tried to use the command:
(global-set-key "\177" 'keyboard-quit)
to define the del key as a cancel function.
This cancels the input as expected but leaves the M-x prompt and doesn't
actually perform the function of keyboard-quit.
C-g also has bindings in several keymaps that are used as the local keymap
in the minibuffer. Try doing this also:
(define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-map "\C-?" 'abort-recursive-edit)
(define-key minibuffer-local-map "\C-?" 'abort-recursive-edit)
(define-key minibuffer-local-ns-map "\C-?" 'abort-recursive-edit)
(define-key minibuffer-local-completion-map "\C-?" 'abort-recursive-edit)
(define-key repeat-complex-command-map "\C-?" 'abort-recursive-edit)
It might actually be easier to play around with the value of
keyboard-translate-table. In any case, you will not get the full
functionality of C-g on C-?, since the value 7 is hardcoded into 20 or 30
different places in the GNU Emacs C source code. Pressing a C-g will
still deliver an interrupt signal to the Emacs process, which will be
handled as before.
Enjoy,
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