From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: educkworth@loyola.edu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: global-set-key in text-mode Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:53:35 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: 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 1203550864 21250 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2008 23:41:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:41:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 21 00:41:28 2008 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 1JRyZ0-0003sj-5F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:41:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRyYV-0005SY-7w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:40:51 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.126.190.165 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1203526415 17657 127.0.0.1 (20 Feb 2008 16:53:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:53:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i12g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=144.126.190.165; posting-account=uSF7xAkAAAD623u6tCvRv3iZH_YzzxSk User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/523.12.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0.4 Safari/523.12.2, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:156340 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:35:06 -0500 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:51716 Archived-At: I have the following key binding in my .emacs file (global-set-key "\M-s" 'save-buffer) and it works in most major modes, but not in text-mode. Can anyone explain to me why this is and/or teach me how to make it work there. Thanks, Ethan