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Chris Laux wrote:

> Alan Mackenzie<none@example.invalid> wrote in message  
> 
> 
>>Another useful trick is to do the binding interactively with M-x
>>global-set-key, etc., then use C-x <esc> <esc> (`repeat-complex-command')
>>to see what it looks like in lisp.
>>
> 
> Thank you all for your help; the advice above actually worked in my
> case, other examples didn't strangely.  In case you are curious, I
> ended up with the command looking like this:
> 
> ;(global-set-key (quote [-67108809]) (quote shell))

That is not portable, which is why the "\M-\C-x", [?\M-\C-x], and

(meta control ?x) syntaxes are preferred.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers