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

[Tom Culliton <tom.culliton@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think it's a consequence of using reply all with the mailing list address
in the CC.

On Thu, May 14, 2026, 13:40 Roland Hughes <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Just an FYI in case something is amiss with the email server, but both tom
> and hippo emails show up twice. Are mine showing up twice as well
>
>
> On 5/14/26 12:14 PM, Tom Culliton wrote:
>
> 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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