From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 26.1 emacs-mac 7.2; map key to interactive lisp function (command) with an argument Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:26:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83pnw3trj3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <50DFDFDA-C01D-49AA-97FB-30DF4DE9BB46@scratch.space> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1540124711 3444 195.159.176.226 (21 Oct 2018 12:25:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 12:25:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 21 14:25:07 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gECn4-0000mf-Cs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 14:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58673 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gECpA-0001Lt-Uz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:27:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34794) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gECoX-0001E8-53 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:26:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gECoR-0007fp-CH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:26:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:57205) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gECoL-0007eD-OQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:26:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2320 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gECoK-0004lW-3y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Oct 2018 08:26:25 -0400 In-reply-to: <50DFDFDA-C01D-49AA-97FB-30DF4DE9BB46@scratch.space> (message from Van L on Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:18:39 +1100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118381 Archived-At: > From: Van L > Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:18:39 +1100 > > I am unable to have the following work. The problem is your global-set-key forms: the general form is (global-set-key KEY COMMAND) where COMMAND is a _symbol_, like this: (global-set-key (kbd "C-c o") 'foo) So you need to define an interactive function named SOMETHING: (defun SOMETHING (...) (interactive) ...) then bind it to a key: (global-set-key (kbd "C-c o") 'SOMETHING) > The elisp documentation has for me the problem of tl;dr and after experimenting with a few paragraphs and failing I want to ask how to get this done. I wonder sometimes if the documentation is obtuse by design to steal time. Please tell which part of the documentation confused you. The doc string of global-set-key says: COMMAND is the command definition to use; usually it is a symbol naming an interactively-callable function. IOW, it usually should be a symbol, whereas in your example it is a list that calls a function.