Greg Novak wrote: > I'm having a difficult time rebinding Shift-tab or Control tab. I've > tried: > > [?\C-tab]
That won't work, because the part that follows ?\C- must be a character, and the tab symbol represents a function key. If you evaluate that, you get [20 ab], which is a vector of the Control-t character and the ab symbol.
> [?\C- tab]
Similarly, that is Control-SPC followed by the tab symbol/function key.
> "\C-<tab>" > "\C-[tab]"
Those appear to be random guesses. (Within a string, you can only have characters.)
<tab> is a human-readable output representation for the function key, not a Lisp-readable input representation. [tab] is a readable input representation for the function key, but it doesn't have any special meaning within a string.
> "\C-\t"
If you try to evaluate that, you get an "Invalid modifier in string" error. That's because the \t character (aka TAB) is already a control character (Control-i).
I'll admit, I don't know why the analogous vector notation [?\C-\t] doesn't fail for that same reason.
> as the first argument to local-set-key and none of them seem to work. > I've read the Emacs manual and the Elisp manual, but I can't find the > information I need.
I would use [C-tab] and [S-tab], to bind the modified tab function key (vs. the modified TAB character, which is problematical).
> I also did "apropos-command key" looking for a command where I can hit > a key and have emacs tell me the exact text that should go into the > first argument to local-set-key in order to rebind the key. Much like > describe-key, but telling me how to rebind it, not what the current > current binding happens to be.
Try typing `C-h k' followed by the key sequence you want to bind, and then `C-h l'. It will show `C-h k <C-tab> C-h l' in the *Help* buffer. The idiot-proof way to make use of that information (please note, I'm not calling you an idiot!) is:
(kbd "<C-tab>")
which evaluates to [C-tab].
> I still think that this function must exist, and I'm just not finding > it. So before I try to write it myself, I thought I'd consult the > list...
-- Kevin Rodgers
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