pymacs! :-)

[Steffen Ries]

pinard at iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:

> I'm not utterly familiar with how `[SYMBOL]' works on the Emacs side to
> represent key-bindings, but I would guess Emacs developers made a few
> stunts for it to look good.  For what I guess these stunts are, I would
> write on the Python side:
> 
>     lisp.global_set_key([lisp['M-f2']], lisp.redo)
>
> or even more tricky:
> 
>     lisp.global_set_key([lisp.M_f2], lisp.redo)
> 
> > >   (global-set-key "\C-xw" manglers-break-on-whitespace)
> > > [to become]
> > >   lisp.global_set_key('\x18w', lisp.manglers_break_on_whitespace)
> 
> > IMHO this is a heavy burden to place on the person trying to write
> > python functions.
> 
> Really?  We'll have to do something about it, then.

I think with emacs-20 the macro `kbd' was introduced to translate
strings like 'M-<f2>' or 'C-x w' to key bindings. I haven't followed the
emacs news groups for a while so I don't know if anybody besides me is
actually using it :-)

The example above could be written as:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-x w") manglers-break-on-whitespace)

-->

lisp.global_set_key(lisp.kbd('C-x w'), lisp.manglers_break_on_whitespace)

/steffen
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