Redefining select-c - summary of solutions

[Vincent Keunen <nrb!keunen@relay.EU.net>]

Thanks to all that replied to my question.  Here is a summary:


Original request:

    Is there a way to suppress the question 

    Change Select-C from Converse to Nanesse Network Configuration? (Yes or No) Yes

    when I compile my system?  This question stops the compilation until
    someone says yes.  I'd like to keep the other questions, however (I
    don't want a global switch).


Replies:

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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 15:55+0200
From: s9274@srl1.LANL.GOV
To: "keunen@nrb.be"@BETA.LANL.GOV
Subject: re: redefining select-C

The following code fragment is from SYS:WINDOW;ACTIVITIES.LISP:

;;; -*- Mode: LISP; Syntax: Common-lisp; Package: COMMON-LISP-INTERNALS; Lowercase: Yes -*-

(defun set-select-key-activity (char activity-name &key clobber-p)
  (setf char (char-upcase (make-char char)))
  (when (or (eq clobber-p t)
	    (let ((old (gethash char *select-key-table*)))
	      (or (null old)
		  (string-equal old activity-name)
		  (and (stringp clobber-p) (string-equal old clobber-p))
		  sys:inhibit-fdefine-warnings
		  fs:this-is-a-patch-file
		  (yes-or-no-p "Change Select-~C from ~A to ~A? " char old activity-name))))
    (setf (gethash char *select-key-table*) activity-name)
    t))

You might try ADVISEing the function so that CLOBBER-P is T, or for your
special case, that it is bound to "Converse".

John Krieger (s9274@srl1.lanl.gov)
Westinghouse Savannah River Company

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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 17:38+0200
From: Douglas Dodds <Dodds@RIVERSIDE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Subject: redefining select-c
To: keunen@nrb
cc: slug@ai.sri.com
In-Reply-To: <19921202104639.9.KEUNEN@nrbmi1.ia.nrb.be>

It's heavy-handed, but just put this form into your code before the
program-frame definition (or whatever else sets the select-key):

  (remhash #\C cli::*select-key-table*)

It won't ask the question if there is no entry for the character being
defined as a select-key.

Douglas Dodds   (dodds@symbolics.com)
Symbolics, Inc.
Concord, Mass., USA

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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 18:36+0200
From: Mike McMahon <MMcM@TITANIA.Oberon.COM>
Subject: redefining select-c
To: nrb!keunen
cc: slug@ai.sri.com
In-Reply-To: <19921202104639.9.KEUNEN@nrbmi1.ia.nrb.be>

You can take the :select-key form out of your define-program-framework
and separately do a set-select-key-activity, giving the :clobber-p argument.

Best style is to have this argument be the name of the old program which
think you are clobbering ("Converse"), although T works for unconditional.

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Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1992 19:05+0200
To: slug@ai.sri.com
From: Ralf Moeller <moeller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
X-Sender: moeller@kogs26.informatik.uni-hamburg.de
Subject: Re: redefining select-c
>
>It's heavy-handed, but just put this form into your code before the
>program-frame definition (or whatever else sets the select-key):
>
>  (remhash #\C cli::*select-key-table*)

This is available as an exported function:

(tv:setup-select-keys nil '(\#C))

Ralf Moeller
University of Hamburg
Bodenstedtstr. 16
2000 Hamburg 50
Germany

Phone: ++40 4123 6134
Fax ++40 4123 6530
Email: moeller@informatik.uni-hamburg.de




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