From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: HELP: One Bindkey for Two Different Commands Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:20:38 -0800 Message-ID: References: <19f20b9e-58a5-44c5-92bf-39abf6f8db0e@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195615346 6476 80.91.229.12 (21 Nov 2007 03:22:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:22:26 +0000 (UTC) To: "Edward" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 04:22:32 2007 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 1IugAZ-0002WC-LK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2007 04:22:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IugAL-0004N6-Hg for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:22:17 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IugA4-0004M4-7a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:22:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IugA3-0004Lj-LD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:21:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IugA3-0004Lg-Fs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:21:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IugA3-0004oA-6K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:21:59 -0500 Original-Received: from agmgw1.us.oracle.com (agmgw1.us.oracle.com [152.68.180.212]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id lAL3Lr2D028939; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:21:54 -0700 Original-Received: from acsmt351.oracle.com (acsmt351.oracle.com [141.146.40.151]) by agmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.0/Switch-3.2.0) with ESMTP id lAL1qb0i017038; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:21:53 -0700 Original-Received: from dhcp-amer-csvpn-gw1-141-144-64-24.vpn.oracle.com by acsmt350.oracle.com with ESMTP id 3379234211195615228; Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:20:28 -0800 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <19f20b9e-58a5-44c5-92bf-39abf6f8db0e@e25g2000prg.googlegroups.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3198 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.4-2.6 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:49384 Archived-At: > Why waste two bindkeys on two similar commands when you can simply > write a function to choose the between commands based on context? > > Unfortunately, this very simple idea doesn't seem to work for me. > Here's what I have in my .emacs so far: > > (defun ya-ya () > (if (cdr (window-list)) > 'other-window > 'switch-to-buffer)) > > (global-set-key "\M-o" (ya-ya)) > Any ideas how this might be accomplished? 1. To turn a function into a command, add an `interactive' spec. The functions other-window and switch-to-buffer require arguments. The second argument to global-set-key is a command, not a list such as you have supplied. Read the Emacs Lisp manual a bit. Better yet, read the manual Emacs Lisp Introduction.