From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Edward" <edward.dodge@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: HELP: One Bindkey for Two Different Commands
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:20:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DNEMKBNJBGPAOPIJOOICCEHBEBAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19f20b9e-58a5-44c5-92bf-39abf6f8db0e@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com>
> Why waste two bindkeys on two similar commands when you can simply
> write a function to choose the between commands based on context?
>
> Unfortunately, this very simple idea doesn't seem to work for me.
> Here's what I have in my .emacs so far:
>
> (defun ya-ya ()
> (if (cdr (window-list))
> 'other-window
> 'switch-to-buffer))
>
> (global-set-key "\M-o" (ya-ya))
> Any ideas how this might be accomplished?
1. To turn a function into a command, add an `interactive' spec.
The functions other-window and switch-to-buffer require arguments.
The second argument to global-set-key is a command, not a list such as you
have supplied.
Read the Emacs Lisp manual a bit. Better yet, read the manual Emacs Lisp
Introduction.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-21 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-21 1:41 HELP: One Bindkey for Two Different Commands Edward
2007-11-21 3:20 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-11-21 13:03 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-11-30 16:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-11-30 16:55 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <mailman.3868.1195615322.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-21 7:46 ` David Kastrup
2007-11-21 9:33 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <mailman.3878.1195637702.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-11-21 12:46 ` Edward
2007-11-21 15:57 ` Mathias Dahl
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