From: "Rich E" <reakinator@gmail.com>
To: "Kevin Rodgers" <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help with global-set-key
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:38:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a3297bc90805192138j2e50c5f1ka19bbfbb292ee6fc@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g0teud$1ut$1@ger.gmane.org>
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Ooh, nice! That works. I'll have a look at the manual next time I try
something like that, didn't even kow about vectors (don't really know
anything about lisp, on that matter).
cheers,
rich
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Rich E wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found this custom command at http://www.crsr.net/Notes/Emacs.html :
>>
>> ;;; Use "%" to jump to the matching parenthesis.
>> (defun goto-match-paren (arg)
>> "Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis, otherwise insert
>> the character typed."
>> (interactive "p")
>> (cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
>> ((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
>> (t (self-insert-command (or arg 1))) ))
>> (global-set-key "%" 'goto-match-paren)
>>
>>
>>
>> I am trying to change the global-set-key to something like "\C-.", but
>> this isn't an acceptable 'string and I don't know why. Can anyone help?
>>
>
> Control-period is not an ASCII character, so it cannot be included in a
> string. But it can be included in a vector: [?\C-.] See the "String
> Basics" node of the Emacs Lisp manual.
>
> --
> Kevin Rodgers
> Denver, Colorado, USA
>
>
>
>
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2008-05-16 3:23 help with global-set-key Rich E
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