Hello,<div><br></div><div>First of all I would like to say that I&#39;m starting for a week to program in LIsp and to use Emacs too.</div><div>I&#39;m reading such documentation like the emacswiki, the &quot;intoduction to programming in Emacs Lisp&quot;.</div>
<div><br></div><div>For a week I have planed to create a major-mode and from there I can launch a set of programs.</div><div>My major-mode should have a main menu like mu4e.el.</div><div><br></div><div>To start with coding I have used the text-mode.el and the source code of mu4e.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Draft  of the main menu:</div><div><br></div><div>&lt;center&gt;Welcome Message &lt;/center&gt;</div><div><br></div><div>&lt;Menu1&gt;General options&lt;/Menu1&gt;</div><div>[Q] to quit</div><div>&lt;Menu2&gt;FTP&lt;/Menu2&gt;</div>
<div>[F3] to start</div><div>&lt;Menu3&gt;IRC&lt;/Menu3&gt;</div><div>[F4] to start</div><div><br></div><div>Note : The  Welcome message should be in blue and the &lt;Menu&gt;text&lt;/Menu&gt; in bold (or in a different color).</div>
<div><br></div><div>My questions are the following:</div><div><br></div><div>1) I have tried several set of functions to define a local-map that I can use for example F2 to run an external program and I still don&#39;t understand why my set of &quot;local keys&quot; are not loaded. I get the error message: &lt;f2&gt; is undefined.</div>
<div>2) I cannot get working to have a set of &#39;face to put a text in blue and the other one in bold.</div><div>3) I can run external program with (shell-command &quot;cmd&quot;)  but I cannot get Emacs &quot;free&quot; to do anything else I would like (this part is not included in the source code I have attached).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Attached to the mail you will find the source code I have written.</div><div><br></div><div>Many tanks for your help.</div><div><br></div><div>Pascal</div>