Re: global-set-key in text-mode

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

educkworth@loyola.edu writes:

> I have the following key binding in my .emacs file
>
> (global-set-key "\M-s" 'save-buffer)

Notice the word "global" at the beginning of the function
`global-set-key'.  This means that it gets overridden by special modes.
The mode is buffer-local, meaning that if you switch to another major
mode, the binding is still there.  What you want to do is redefine it
for text mode: there's a great explanation of how to fix keybindings
that inadvertently get reset by major modes in Chapter 11, section
"Customizing Existing Modes" of _Learning GNU Emacs_ from O'Reilly.

Here's a summary:

(add-hook 'text-mode-hook
          '(lambda ()
                   (define-key text-mode-map "\M-s" 'save-buffer)))


Try "M-x describe-mode" for a listing of keybindings.  "\M-x where-is"
also tells you the keybinding of any command.

HTH,
Joel
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