Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

[Alexandre Oberlin]

Hi all,

All my global-set-key work fine, except
(global-set-key  [f6] 'other-window)

It is undefined once my emacs has started. (GNU Emacs 23.2.1 
(i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.21.4)

I have no error listed in *Messages* and keys settings or commands 
placed below in the .emacs are OK. Only F6 is not bound.

Manually evaluating the above expression directly in my .emacs with 
CTRL-x CTRL-e works fine though.

I have no clue...

Cheers,

Re: Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

[Bernardo]

> All my global-set-key work fine, except
> (global-set-key  [f6] 'other-window)
> 
> It is undefined once my emacs has started. (GNU Emacs 23.2.1 
> (i386-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.21.4)
> 
> I have no error listed in *Messages* and keys settings or commands 
> placed below in the .emacs are OK. Only F6 is not bound.
> 
> Manually evaluating the above expression directly in my .emacs with 
> CTRL-x CTRL-e works fine though.
> 

something else overrides your setting?
what happens if you put it at the end of .emacs?
what do you see after hitting F6 and then C-h k?

Re: Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

[Bernardo]

> what do you see after hitting F6 and then C-h k?

this should've been: F6 then C-h l
but you can also try C-h k f6

[SOLVED] Re: Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

[Alexandre Oberlin]

Thanks a lot Bernardo for your suggestions.

I restart emacs to cancel manual key assignment:
F6 output:
<f6> is undefined

F6 C-h l output:
<f6> C-h l

C-h k F6 output:
<f6> is undefined

My other global-set-key work fine from site-start.el. Now if i put the 
(global-set-key  [f6] 'other-window) at the end of .emacs as you 
suggested, IT WORKS! though I'd bet I tried it before (my .emacs has 
changed since then). I'll try to spot the offending command.

I once had a similar problem on Fedora 14 due to a
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el
which was loaded after .emacs.
However this had been fixed using
(setq inhibit-default-init t)
and my default.el file is empty anyway.

Cheers,

Alexandre

On 05/01/2012 02:38 PM, Bernardo wrote:
>> what do you see after hitting F6 and then C-h k?
>
> this should've been: F6 then C-h l
> but you can also try C-h k f6
>
>

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

[Alexandre Oberlin]

On 05/01/2012 04:48 PM, Alexandre Oberlin wrote:
>  I'll try to spot the offending command.
The offending command is:
(cua-selection-mode nil)

If I define f6 before this call, it ends up undefined.

Alexandre

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> I'll try to spot the offending command.
> The offending command is:
> (cua-selection-mode nil)
> If I define f6 before this call, it ends up undefined.

That's odd: "grep f6 lisp/emulation/cua*.el" doesn't return anything.


        Stefan

Re: Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 01.05.2012 um 14:14 schrieb Alexandre Oberlin:

> All my global-set-key work fine, except
> (global-set-key  [f6] 'other-window)

Have you tried it interactively? With C-x ESC ESC you can recall the command and see whether F6 really is F6...

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