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From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Problems with global-set-key
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:34:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-A655DE.09345522042005@comcast.dca.giganews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: d4afei$a6u$1@news.net.uni-c.dk

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In article <d4afei$a6u$1@news.net.uni-c.dk>, JS <d44sf@44ada.com> 
wrote:

> In my .emacs file I have made this:
> 
> (global-set-key "\C-z" 'shell)
> 
> And it works fine when I restart emacs.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> But when I do this:
> 
> (global-set-key "\M-a" 'comment-dwim)
> 
> I get this error when I restart:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> An error has occurred while loading `/home/johs/.emacs':
> 
> Symbol's function definition is void: global-set-key 
> 
> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause
> of the error in your initialization file and remove it.  Start
> Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error
> backtrace
> Loading view...done
> 
> ------------------------
> 
> I have then tried to start emacs like this: emacs --debug-init and then I
> get this:
> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function global-set-key )

It looks to me like there's a strange character in your file after 
'global-set-key', so it's trying to find a function named 
global-set-key<strangechar>.  Notice the space before the close-paren -- 
that's not normal.  Normally Emacs Lisp will escape space characters in 
symbol names, so I suspect it's an international character that happens 
to look like space.

>   (global-set-key  "á"   (quote comment-dwim))
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "~/.emacs" nil t)
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/johs/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t)
>   load("~/.emacs" t t)
>   #[nil " …—
> ----------------------------
> 
> 
> Why is it not possible to write the second statement?

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
*** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-04-22 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-22  9:18 Problems with global-set-key JS
2005-04-22  9:33 ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found] ` <mailman.2557.1114162497.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-22  9:57   ` JS
2005-04-22 10:54     ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2582.1114167378.2895.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-04-22 11:07       ` JS
2005-04-22 10:31 ` Tim X
2005-04-22 13:34 ` Barry Margolin [this message]

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