Okay, I did it manually (since I typed the file, I am still doing it
manually.. it certainly wasn't done by anything else, but me.  By manually,
you mean M-x.....)

the last command then was

(global-set-key [f12] (quote compile))

doesn't work in .emacs file

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de> wrote:

>
> Am 27.07.2012 um 00:28 schrieb Jai Dayal:
>
> >  I now tried
> > (global-set-key [f12] 'compile)
> >
> > and it still says it's undefined.
>
> Then try it manually! Or is it that you don't believe what you see?
>
> --
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>
>   Pete
>
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