Re: Setting auto-indentation of braces

[Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>]

Juha Nieminen wrote:
> Kevin Rodgers kirjoitti:
>> (global-set-key (kbd "M-7") "{")
> 
>   (global-set-key "M-7" "{") seems to work as well.

Well, it shouldn't: that binds a 3-character sequence (M, dash, 7) to 
left-brace.

>   This is exactly what I was looking for. I didn't know you could give 
> directly a string to global-set-key, rather than a command (as I 
> mentioned, my knowledge of elisp is next to nil).

You can bind anything that satisfies commandp, whose doc string says:

Interactively callable functions include strings and vectors (treated
as keyboard macros), lambda-expressions that contain a top-level call
to `interactive', autoload definitions made by `autoload' with non-nil
fourth argument, and some of the built-in functions of Lisp.

Also, a symbol satisfies `commandp' if its function definition does so.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA