From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Heinrich Dietrich Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Newby trying to do a macro key binding, I think Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:41:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <26401079.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258524624 12179 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2009 06:10:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:10:24 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 18 07:10:16 2009 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 1NAdk7-00060Q-OU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:10:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59752 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAdk7-000644-0U for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAZYW-00077F-PF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:42:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NAZYR-000710-KH for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:41:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33969 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NAZYR-00070Y-Cp for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from kuber.nabble.com ([216.139.236.158]:42683) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NAZYQ-0005Td-Sf for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:41:55 -0500 Original-Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1NAZYO-0000z5-M5 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:41:52 -0800 X-Nabble-From: paul.heinrich.dietrich@gmail.com X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:06:47 -0500 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:69865 Archived-At: How do you write the code for a macro and key binding (I think that's how to do it) in your .emacs file so that you can hit a key, say f5, and the following command is automatically entered: C-x d /me@servername#99:/home/directory/path/ I've tried a billion variations on a theme, but can't get it to work. For example, I tried C-x (C-x d /me@servername#99:/home/directory/path/C-x) and I forget the routine now, but did something with kbd and names and managed to get the code into my .emacs file. The first problem is that the main part of it (/me@servername#99:/home/directory/path/) wouldn't appear because as I created the macro, Emacs tried to suggest a path that was wildly different, so I had to backspace about 15 times and then type it, but when I get the macro code into the .emacs file, all I see are a lot of backspace backspace backspace...and no path. No biggee, so I tried putting quotes around it, ?\ in front of it, etc. What did I do wrong? Go easy, I'm in the earliest learning stages of Emacs. Next, I'm guessing I want to use a key binding. Let's say I called the macro pathfinder. I think I would establish the key binding like this: (global-set-key "\C-c a") 'pathfinder) or ;(global-set-key [f5] 'pathfinder) depending on whether I want to call it with f5 or C-c a. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Newby-trying-to-do-a-macro-key-binding%2C-I-think-tp26401079p26401079.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.