Re: Quail and dabbrev-expand

[Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel <rbp@isnomore.net>]

On Wed, Nov 26 2003 at 08:38:07PM BRST, Jeff Sheinberg <jeff@bsrd.net> wrote:
> Rodrigo Bernardo Pimentel writes:
>  >         At first, I thought I'd simply rebind M-/ to dabbrev-expand, but it
>  > doesn't work! When I enter text-mode, "C-h k M-/" shows me M-/ is bound to
>  > quail-start-translation. If I then do "M-x global-set-key RET M-/ RET
>  > dabbrev-expand RET", "C-h k M-/" tells me M-/ is *still* bound to
>  > quail-start-translation (same goes for M-x local-set-key).
>  > 
>  >         What gives? Does anyone know why quail refuses to let M-/ (and I
>  > assume this happens for other key sequences as well) be rebound. Should it
>  > bind M-/ to its functions in the first place?
> 
> Have a look a the .el source of "quail", to see how quail binds
> the keys that you are interested in.
> 
> I had a similar problem with fsf emacs with the version control
> default key binding of "C-x C-q", here is how I fixed it,
> 
>     ;; Rebind C-x C-q to 'toggle-read-only (default 'vc-toggle-read-only).
>     (load "vc-hooks")
>     (define-key global-map "\C-x\C-q" 'toggle-read-only)

        It worked with the following in text-mode-hook (called by quail):

(define-key quail-mode-map "\M-/" 'dabbrev-expand)

        Thanks :)



                rbp
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