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i want a shortcut for the nice little function comment-or-uncomment-region. The thing is, it works fine for me in every mode using M-x comment-or-uncomment-region. And espacially it works differently (# for python and // for C++) so everything is fine here. But as i said i want a shortcut for this. So i wrote the following in my init.el file:

(global-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'comment-or-uncomment-region)

This now works for all my .cpp files, where I'm in c++-mode, but in python-mode it says, this function is not on a key. But i think its global-set, so what am I doing wrong? Or are some other functions able to unset the key (maybe in the initialization) ?

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  • A minimal recipe to repro it, starting from emacs -Q (no init file), would help answering.
    – Drew
    Apr 2, 2019 at 23:32
  • python-mode is probably binding its own command to the key in its keymap. Try binding the key to python-mode-map in python-mode-hook or using something like eval-after-load.
    – user12563
    Apr 3, 2019 at 5:34
  • Thank you! A hook has done it. But it somehow doesnt know the comment character anymore, but with (add-hook 'python-mode-hook (local-set-key (kbd "C-;") 'comment-or-uncomment-region))' and '(add-hook 'python-mode-hook (setq comment-start "#")) it works. Im sure this isnt the cleanest way, but it works ! Thank you for that hint! @DoMiNeLa10
    – Reddy
    Apr 3, 2019 at 10:07
  • Curious why you don't just use comment-dwim? I think it is bound by default to M-;
    – Willy Lee
    Apr 3, 2019 at 15:09
  • @Reddy these won't work properly, as add-hook takes a function as the argument.
    – user12563
    Apr 3, 2019 at 16:04

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Major modes have their own keymaps, and python-mode probably overrides the binding from the global one. You can fix this by adding a hook that will set the key in python-mode's map like this:

(add-hook 'python-mode-hook
          (lambda ()
            (define-key python-mode-map (kbd "C-;") #'comment-or-uncomment-region)))
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  • That sounds good, but sadly doesn't work for me. I also tried to do it not via the init.el file, with 'M-x global-set-key RET C-; comment-or-uncomment-region' (same with local while in python mode) and it still doesnt change it. So I think it is not overwritten.
    – Reddy
    Apr 3, 2019 at 20:49

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