From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: global-set-key, error: Invalid modifier in string Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:12:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1187327326.366474.138940@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <1187364053.751956.181150@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187592030 6350 80.91.229.12 (20 Aug 2007 06:40:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:40:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 20 08:40:29 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IN0w8-0004gT-S2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:40:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IN0w8-0001uN-Qd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:40:28 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:12:03 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T7hPfUC3Nb+9+QOo9xHhzndBufA= Original-Lines: 20 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-gjXxjKG0iRrX9jmispM9PnW+NQ4b71E5xTcPmdy3Ed1AqZHdYcp1RbP5I3LQtzs4HW0U+R/WIlerBZj!OXAqL0XyoF41go0y6ORRYeFmwk3CE6QlM+vni6ByhBlhTyTGSv/yu5BZ0TqXEExOfShWAtdCc69O!DBIO/mJdNrbZjNqMtw== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151123 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:46695 Archived-At: > 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-" '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