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From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: moasenwood@zoho.eu
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: global-set-key with function taking arguments
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 13:28:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-253c33db-3f96-49ce-b917-505916fd7d31-1604233705577@3c-app-mailcom-bs11> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lfflxo76.fsf@zoho.eu>


> Sent: Sunday, November 01, 2020 at 1:21 PM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: global-set-key with function taking arguments
>
> Christopher Dimech wrote:
>
> > It looks to me that it is much better to define your own function
> > so then you can use describe-key.
>
> ... you mean `describe-function'?

No.  I mean describe-key.  If you try describe-key for a key binding
you are not going to get useful documentation with an anonymous function.
But I might be mistaken.  May one include documentation string for
lambda ()?

>
> AND if it is a function you can also invoke it with M-x, from Lisp,
> or even from other keybindings.
>
> --
> underground experts united
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> https://dataswamp.org/~incal
>
>
>



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-01 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-01  9:53 global-set-key with function taking arguments jai-bholeki via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 10:57 ` William Xu
2020-11-01 11:33   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 11:47     ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 12:21       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 12:28         ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-11-01 12:57           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 13:19             ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 13:37               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 14:08                 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-11-01 14:56                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2020-11-01 23:38                     ` Corwin Brust
2020-11-01 13:05     ` William Xu

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