Emacs initialisation query

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

(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 either.


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