From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: global-set-key, error: Invalid modifier in string
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:12:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvfy2evisk.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: qywsvu10xr.fsf@freenet.de
> I have this macro at the top of my ~/.emacs so that I don't have to
> think about this mess anymore:
> (defmacro global-defkey (key def)
> "*Bind KEY globally to DEF.
> KEY should be a string constant in the format used for
> saving keyboard macros (cf. `insert-kbd-macro')."
> `(global-set-key (kbd ,key) ,def))
> Use it as in:
> (global-defkey "C-M-<backspace>" 'backward-kill-sexp)
I prefer to solve this issue by saying that key combos are not characters and
hence key sequences are not strings.
So I recommend to use the array notation instead, which also happens to be
the "native" notation.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-20 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-17 5:08 global-set-key, error: Invalid modifier in string John
2007-08-17 8:17 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-08-17 10:13 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-08-17 15:20 ` John
2007-08-17 15:40 ` John
2007-08-19 15:56 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-08-17 18:16 ` Emilio Lopes
2007-08-20 6:12 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.4897.1187338712.32220.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-17 15:08 ` John
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