Comments on: emacs keybindings with number keys http://snarfed.org Ryan Barrett's blog Fri, 18 May 2012 05:50:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: ashawley http://snarfed.org/emacs_keybindings_with_number_keys#comment-397 ashawley Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://snarfed.org/wordpress/emacs_keybindings_with_number_keys#comment-397 <p>Use vectors:</p> <p class="paragraph"/> <p>(global-set-key <a href='/space/?C-1' rel="nofollow">?C-1</a> 'foo)</p> <p class="paragraph"/> <p>See "Key Bindings" in the Emacs Manual.</p> Use vectors:

(global-set-key ?C-1 ‘foo)

See “Key Bindings” in the Emacs Manual.

]]> By: ryan http://snarfed.org/emacs_keybindings_with_number_keys#comment-398 ryan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://snarfed.org/wordpress/emacs_keybindings_with_number_keys#comment-398 <p><span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/JohanBockg%c3%a5rd#bojohan" rel="nofollow">Johan Bockgard</a></span> (from <span class="nobr"><a href="http://emacswiki.org" rel="nofollow">EmacsWiki</a></span>) <span class="nobr"><a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/RyanBarrett" rel="nofollow">describes a similar solution</a></span>:</p> <p class="paragraph"/> <blockquote class="quote"> The thing following control can be a symbol or a character. GNU Emacs has no separate character object type and 1 is indistinguishable from C-a as a character.<p class="paragraph"/> (list 1 (type-of 1)) => (1 integer) the number 1/the char ^A (list ?C-a (type-of ?C-a)) => (1 integer) ditto<p class="paragraph"/> (list '1 (type-of '1)) => (1 symbol) the symbol 1<p class="paragraph"/>?1 would work too:<p class="paragraph"/> (list ?1 (type-of ?1)) => (49 integer) the number 49/the char 1<p class="paragraph"/>I suggest (global-set-key (kbd "C-1") 'foo), btw. </blockquote> <p class="paragraph"/> Johan Bockgard (from EmacsWiki) describes a similar solution:

The thing following control can be a symbol or a character. GNU Emacs has no separate character object type and 1 is indistinguishable from C-a as a character.

(list 1 (type-of 1)) => (1 integer) the number 1/the char ^A (list ?C-a (type-of ?C-a)) => (1 integer) ditto

(list ‘1 (type-of ‘1)) => (1 symbol) the symbol 1

?1 would work too:

(list ?1 (type-of ?1)) => (49 integer) the number 49/the char 1

I suggest (global-set-key (kbd “C-1″) ‘foo), btw.

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