Redefining keys in the pGnus summary buffer

Redefining keys in the pGnus summary buffer

[Daniel Pittman]

I am having some trouble customizing the keyboard interface to pGnus
("Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96")

What I want to do is redefine the keystroke M-k to lower the score of a
thread. This is easy to do and I have it working.

Getting the redefinition to happen automatically is a little harder
however. I tried doing '(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map ...)' in .gnus
and that didn't work -- I got the original binding.

OK, I thought, and went hunting for where the keymap was frobnicated.
'gnus-sum.el' seemed to be the place that did it. So, I wrapped my
redefinitions in an '(eval-after-load "gnus-sum" ...)' form.

No joy. I still get the original key definition.

So, can someone out there tell me where I am being stupid? I would like
to be able to customize the keyboard interface quite a bit :)

        Daniel

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Re: Redefining keys in the pGnus summary buffer

[John Palmieri]

Daniel Pittman <daniel@danann.net> writes:

> I am having some trouble customizing the keyboard interface to pGnus
> ("Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96")
> 
> What I want to do is redefine the keystroke M-k to lower the score of a
> thread. This is easy to do and I have it working.
> 
> Getting the redefinition to happen automatically is a little harder
> however. I tried doing '(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map ...)' in .gnus
> and that didn't work -- I got the original binding.
> 
> OK, I thought, and went hunting for where the keymap was frobnicated.
> 'gnus-sum.el' seemed to be the place that did it. So, I wrapped my
> redefinitions in an '(eval-after-load "gnus-sum" ...)' form.
> 
> No joy. I still get the original key definition.
> 
> So, can someone out there tell me where I am being stupid? I would like
> to be able to customize the keyboard interface quite a bit :)

I would expect that something like this would work, but I haven't
tried it:

(add-hook 'gnus-summary-mode-hook
	  '(lambda ()
	     (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map ...)))

(There are lots of "gnus-summary-BLAH-hook"s; gnus-summary-mode-hook
looks like it should work, but maybe you need
gnus-summary-generate-hook or gnus-summary-prepare-hook or one of the
other ones.  Do M-x apropos-variable gnus-summary.*hook for a list.)

-- 
John H. Palmieri                      
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Re: Redefining keys in the pGnus summary buffer

[Colin Rafferty]

Daniel Pittman writes:

> What I want to do is redefine the keystroke M-k to lower the score of a
> thread. This is easy to do and I have it working.

> Getting the redefinition to happen automatically is a little harder
> however. 

The trick is to make sure that gnus-sum.el is already loaded.  Since
you are putting this in your .gnus, you are not killing your process
space with a require:

(require 'gnus-sum)
(define-key gnus-summary-mode-map [(meta k)] 'gnus-summary-lower-thread)

-- 
Colin