Re: [jed-users] Making keymap changes in Jed?

[Tom Culliton <tom.culliton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you looking for setkey? There are lots of examples in the standard mode
files like emacs.sl

On Thu, May 14, 2026, 13:10 Hippo Man <hippo@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thank you, but I already have read that documentation.
>
> In it, it shows how to map one key to another key sequence
> via this sort of thing:  map_input(28, 19).
>
> It also describes how keyboard macros can be used to map
> a keystroke to one or more characters to be inserted.
>
> However, I found nothing within that documentation which
> describes how to map a keystroke to a full-fledged
> function call. I would need this capability to create
> the kinds of somewhat complex keymapping that I described
> in my original message here.
>
> Given that you recommended that I read this document,
> I'm guessing that you actually know that the answer to
> my question about this topic is indeed contained within
> It. So, could you point me to the section of the document
> in which the answer to my question is explained?
>
> I have gone through this document twice before posting
> my question here, and I now have once again gone through
> the document a third time.
>
> But again, please forgive me if after all of that I still
> I somehow overlooked this answer.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
> On 5/14/26 12:35 PM, Roland Hughes wrote:
> > I would start with the user manual. You can download it here
> >
> >
> https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/jed-user-manual/
> >
> >
> > On 5/14/2026 10:49 AM, Hippo Man wrote:
> >> I have been using Gnu emacs for more than a couple decades,
> >> but now I'm thinking about switching to Jed, and I have a
> >> question.
> >>
> >> Please forgive me if this question has already been answered
> >> somewhere and that I might have overlooked the answer in my
> >> net searches.
> >>
> >> In Gnu emacs, I have been able to make keymap changes, and I'm
> >> trying to figure out how to do the same with Jed.
> >>
> >> For example, in Gnu emacs, one of the many keymap changes that
> >> I made is to define Control-Z to be used as a prefix for a
> >> set of two-character key mappings. I can then do things like
> >> map Control-Z/Control-L to give me a prompt for a line number
> >> to go to, and I can map Control-Z/Control-Z to perform a
> >> "suspend" ... which is what a single Control-Z currently does
> >> by default in Jed.
> >>
> >> And I have made many other similar keymap changes in Gnu emacs
> >> which I'm hoping that I could also make in Jed.
> >>
> >> Short of doing re-writes of the Jed source code itself, is
> >> there any way to use S-lang or other Jed configuration
> >> techniques in order to make these kinds of keymap changes?
> >>
> >> Again, I apologize if I overlooked an already documented
> >> answer to this question.
> >>
> >> And thank you very much in advance for any thoughts and
> >> suggestions concerning this topic.
> >>
>
>
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