"Richard C. Cobbe" wrote:
>Lo, on Thursday, March 22, Oliver Elphick did write:
>
>> (If it matters, I'm using xemacs 21).
>>
>> I want to define a function key to run a macro.
>>
>> I can do it within a session:
>>
>> ESC x global-set-key RET <f9> eif-indent-buffer RET
>>
>> but I can't get it to work in the initialisation file ~/.emacs:
>>
>> (defalias 'eif-indent-buffer (read-kbd-macro
>> "ESC x mark- whole- buffer RET ESC x eif- indent- region RET"))
>> (global-set-key <f9> 'eif-indent-buffer)
>>
>>
>> What should I put for <f9>? I've tried "f9", <f9>, "<f9>", (<f9>) and it
>> doesn't like any of them. I can't see anything about it in the docs eithe
>r.
>
>(global-set-key [f9] 'eif-indent-buffer)
>
>See the xemacs info page, `Key Sequences' node.
In fact, that caused xemacs to hang for a long while, but your pointer to
documentation led me to the correct answer, in the node "Programmatic
Rebinding":
(global-set-key 'f9 'eif-indent-buffer)
Thanks.
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