{"id":353,"date":"2011-11-15T15:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T20:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=353"},"modified":"2011-12-26T12:07:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T17:07:02","slug":"using-key-chords-in-emacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irreal.org\/blog\/?p=353","title":{"rendered":"Using Key Chords In Emacs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week I wrote about David Andersson’s Key Chord Mode<\/a> that I discovered in the latest Emacs Rocks video<\/a>. I thought it was interesting and I enabled it in my Emacs by adding <\/p>\n

(require<\/span> 'key-chord<\/span>)\r\n(key-chord-mode 1)\r\n(key-chord-define-global \"dq\"<\/span> 'dq)\r\n<\/pre>\n
 to my scratch buffer and evaluating it just to play around with it a little. I thought it was pretty nifty but I didn’t think I would actually use it so I didn’t add it to my init.el<\/code> file. <\/p>\n
 Yesterday, as I was writing the Automatic Lookup From Emacs<\/a> post, I wanted to set the function names in the first column of the table in a constant width font. In Org mode you do that by surrounding the name with equal signs like so <\/p>\n
=lookup-google=\r\n<\/pre>\n
 But the equal sign has a special meaning in an Org-mode table and it causes an error when you try to use it to mark an entry as constant width. So I set the first couple of names by hand like this <\/p>\n
@<code>lookup-google@<\/code>\r\n<\/pre>\n
 where the @<\/code> tells the Org exporter to treat the following tag as an actual tag and not translate it to &lt;<\/code> and so on. The problem is that it’s a pain to type the tags because they’re shifted and the \u3010@<\/span>\u3011 key is way at the top of the keyboard. <\/p>\n
 I thought about writing a quick little function to do it for me but it hardly seemed worth the effort. Then I remembered key-chord.el<\/code>, which was still enabled, so I added <\/p>\n
(key-chord-define-global \"<>\"<\/span> \"@<>\\C-b\"<\/span>)\r\n<\/pre>\n
 to the scratch buffer and evaluated it. It seems like a small thing but it really made doing the rest of the table a snap. I just typed \u3010Shift<\/span>+<<\/span>+><\/span>\u3011 and <\/p>\n
@<|>\r\n<\/pre>\n
 where |<\/code> represents the point, was inserted into the buffer. That’s handy enough that I am<\/i> going to enable chord-mode in my init.el<\/code> and add the <><\/code> chord for those, admittedly rare, times when I need to insert some HTML tags by hand. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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