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Amelio Vazquez-Reina
Amelio Vazquez-Reina

Reputation: 96370

Bind command to C-RET in Emacs

Say I have some interactive function in Emacs my-function, how can I bind it to Ctrl + RET?

I have tried with:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-RET") 'my-function)

and

(global-set-key (kbd "C-return") 'my-function)

but none of them seem to work. is this at all possible?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 3407

Answers (2)

teppic
teppic

Reputation: 8195

This should work:

(global-set-key [(control return)] 'my-function)

It works for me, but may not in a terminal as per @phils's answer.

Upvotes: 0

phils
phils

Reputation: 73334

Always remember that kbd very conveniently accepts the exact same syntax that Emacs gives you when you ask it about a key sequence, so you never ever have to guess.

C-hkC-RET tells me:

<C-return>

therefore I would use (kbd "<C-return>")

OTOH, when running Emacs in my terminal, C-hkC-RET tells me:

C-j

because C-RET isn't a valid control character in a terminal, and therefore Emacs isn't receiving the same input that it gets in GUI mode (so I wouldn't be able to use that binding in my terminal).

Upvotes: 23

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