On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:10:39 +0400 Stas Boukarev stassats@gmail.com wrote:

pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) writes:

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There's a bug in slime, it binds HOME to slime-repl-bol, and does it so that it's very hard to rebind it to the normal beginning-of-buffer.

It's not a bug, the default binding of home is `move-beginning-of-line'. What's the problem with rebinding it? (define-key slime-repl-mode-map [home] 'beginning-of-buffer) works fine.

I admit still considering myself new to emacs, as I only use it with Slime for Lisp (using Vim since many years for other languages I have to deal with), but I noticed that although ctrl-a indeed moves the cursor at the first column on the current line, the actual [home] key (although not being one of the recommended emacs editing keys) moves it at the top of the document as for alt-<. Is this expected behaviour or am I missing something in my configuration? The [end] key behaves fine as ctrl-e. This is using GNU Emacs in urxvt.

Thank you,

* Helmut Eller [2010-08-30 15:38] writes:

I think that changed in Emacs 21 or 22, previously HOME was for beginning-of-buffer and and now it's beginning-of-line. See bindings.el:

;; natural bindings for terminal keycaps --- defined in X keysym order (define-key global-map [C-S-backspace] 'kill-whole-line) (define-key global-map [home] 'move-beginning-of-line) (define-key global-map [C-home] 'beginning-of-buffer) (define-key global-map [M-home] 'beginning-of-buffer-other-window) (define-key esc-map [home] 'beginning-of-buffer-other-window)

And further down there are bindings for the [begin] key (5 on the numpad):

(define-key global-map [end] 'move-end-of-line) (define-key global-map [C-end] 'end-of-buffer) (define-key global-map [M-end] 'end-of-buffer-other-window) (define-key esc-map [end] 'end-of-buffer-other-window) (define-key global-map [begin] 'beginning-of-buffer) (define-key global-map [M-begin] 'beginning-of-buffer-other-window) (define-key esc-map [begin] 'beginning-of-buffer-other-window)

Helmut