144: How do I bind a combination of modifier key and function key? Unless you're using Emacs under emacstool (or xvetool?) or you have a working version of x-rebind-key (see question 130), you can't do this with Emacs alone. If you are using emacstool, Emacs sees different character sequences for ! the combination of a modifier and a function key from what it sees for the function key alone. See etc/emacstool.1 for more information. Since Emacs sees different character sequences, you can bind these different sequences to different commands. If you are running Emacs inside a terminal emulator window like xterm, you can modify its translation tables to make it generate different character sequences for the combination of a modifier and a function key. For example, this X resource setting: XTerm.VT100.Translations: #override \ ShiftF1: string(0x1b) string("[xyzzy") makes Shift-F1 generate the character sequence "ESC [ xyzzy". You can bind these character sequences in Emacs as normal. Nick Ruprecht + has written an extensive X + translation mapping for xterm that does this. {Does this have an FTP + site?} +