Re: Emacs initialisation query

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

"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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