Redefinig keys

Redefinig keys

[Bernd Schandl]

I just installed a new SuSE Linux version with Emacs 21.2.1 and some commands
in my .emacs don't work anymore. I am redefining some function keys with 
commands like
  (global-set-key [(control f5)] 'find-file)
But C-f5 doesn't work. What might be wrong? Did something concerning
global-set-key change in recent versions of Emacs? Or did I change some
other setting that makes this stop working?
Also, when I try to use global-set-key interactively and I get to the point
where I have to enter the key to define, pressing C-f5 (or any other function
key) does not invoke any reaction. Pressing something else (like C-f) works 
fine?

  Bernd

Re: Redefinig keys

[Kai Großjohann]

schandl@gmx.net (Bernd Schandl) writes:

> Also, when I try to use global-set-key interactively and I get to the point
> where I have to enter the key to define, pressing C-f5 (or any other function
> key) does not invoke any reaction. Pressing something else (like C-f) works 
> fine?

Maybe your window manager is eating that key sequence?

What happens when you start xev and then type C-f5 into its window?
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Re: Redefinig keys

[Bernd Schandl]

kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai Großjohann wrote in message news:<84r8crab9y.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>...
> schandl@gmx.net (Bernd Schandl) writes:
> 
> > Also, when I try to use global-set-key interactively and I get to the point
> > where I have to enter the key to define, pressing C-f5 (or any other function
> > key) does not invoke any reaction. Pressing something else (like C-f) works 
> > fine?
> 
> Maybe your window manager is eating that key sequence?

Ok, that was the problem, thanks a lot!

  Bernd