From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shashank Khanvilkar Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: global-set-key doesnot seem to work Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:01:56 -0500 Organization: The University of Illinois at Chicago Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123545787 5720 80.91.229.2 (9 Aug 2005 00:03:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 00:03:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 09 02:03:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2HZL-0001gN-4A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 02:02:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E2HcM-0000kT-Ua for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 20:05:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!news.cc.uic.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: mia.ece.uic.edu Original-X-Trace: newsx.cc.uic.edu 1123545620 29881 131.193.50.165 (9 Aug 2005 00:00:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@uic.edu Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 00:00:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (Windows/20041103) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:133055 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:28574 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:28574 Hi, I have defined the following in my .emacs file $>cat .emacs --Snip-- (global-set-key [delete] 'delete-char) (global-set-key [kp-delete] 'delete-char)global-set-key [f1] 'dired) (global-set-key [f2] 'dired-omit-toggle) (global-set-key [f3] 'shell) (global-set-key [f4] 'find-file) (global-set-key [f5] 'compile) (global-set-key [f6] 'visit-tags-table) (global-set-key [f8] 'add-change-log-entry-other-window) (global-set-key [f12] 'make-frame) --Snip-- However none of these mapped keys work. Am i forgetting to do something? All help appreciated. Also where can i see error logs that emacs might spit out. Shank