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HS wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Does anyone here knows "what to press" to activate this keybinding?
>
> (global-set-key [(alt ?3)] (hot-file "~/.emacs"))
>
> I don't know what does the '?' means....

I think it means Alt-3 in XEmacs.
But I don't know for sure.