Oops! Yes I did misplace one hyphen between 'meta' and 'g'.<br>
After removing it now it works.<br>
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Thank you all.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2006/4/21, Stefan Monnier &lt;<a href="mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca">monnier@iro.umontreal.ca</a>&gt;:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
&gt; I am a beginner with GNU Emacs(21.3.1). I added this line to ~/.emacs<br>&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (global-set-key [(meta-g)] 'goto-line)<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;^<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
^^^<br><br>That should be a space, otherwise you're trying to bind the &quot;meta-g&quot; key,<br>which I'm pretty sure you don't have on your keyboard.<br><br><br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stefan<br>_______________________________________________
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