Re: Running .emacs style commands within emacs

["Ben Forbes" <bdforbes@gmail.com>]

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Actually what I meant was, I want to run lisp forms from within emacs. Eg,
(global-set-key "\C-\M-z" 'delete-whole-line). There must be a Lisp engine
running within Emacs that interprets this form when it is in the .emacs init
file. Can I send lisp forms to this engine at any given time during an Emacs
session? I know global-set-key can be run from M-x but it's interactive, I'd
like to be able to enter the above form manually.

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From: B. T. Raven <nihil@nihilo.net>
Date: Tue, May 20, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Subject: Re: Running .emacs style commands within emacs
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org


Ben Forbes wrote:

> In my .emacs init file I have commands like
>
> (fset 'delete-whole-line "\C-a\C-k\C-k")
>
>
> How can I run a command like this from within emacs? It doesn't seem to be
> recognized when I try "M-x fset".
>
>

This is just the expression generated when you save a macro. Try C-h f
'delete-whole-line and a *Help buffer will show this. You could shorten the
macro name to 'dln and it would work the same. Try this and then invoke with
M-x dln. So it's just go to beginning of line, kill line, kill newline. You
can define keyboard macros and not save them if you need them for only one
session.

Ed

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