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Re: Restoring Old Key Binding for eval-expression
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Restoring Old Key Binding for eval-expression |
Date: |
Sat, 04 Jun 2016 12:23:41 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
> From: rwgpost@gmail.com
>
> I am just starting to use a current version of Emacs that has eval-expression
> bound to M-:. I used to use eval-expression a lot and loved being able to
> just type Esc Esc to invoke eval-expression. Is there a way to restore this
> in my .emacs file? I've tried several things, like:
>
> (global-set-key "\M-ESC" 'eval-expression)
> (global-set-key "\M-ESC" 'eval-expression)
> (global-set-key "ESC-ESC" 'eval-expression)
>
> but I can't get any of these to work. M-: is unwieldy as I have to hit the
> Meta key, the colon, and the shift key all at the same time.
>
> I really miss Esc Esc, which used to work I guess because the old binding was
> M-Esc, and Esc-Esc did the same thing.
This should get you off the ground:
(global-set-key "\e\e" 'eval-expression)
(For the future, you can find out answers to many such questions by
looking at various key bindings in the Emacs sources.)