From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: clear-kill-ring function Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:49:53 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445971823 32534 80.91.229.3 (27 Oct 2015 18:50:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 18:50:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 27 19:50:22 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9KA-0004Q6-JD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 19:50:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33782 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zr9KA-0006KD-0d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:50:22 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="875"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1807xlx7yaXYApaNQ4ghFLf" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uC+I9B7B47YwrvkzI5DdXQnnaqQ= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:215562 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:107848 Archived-At: In article , Sharon Kimble wrote: > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (defun qdot/clear-kill-ring () > "Clear the kill ring variable" > (setq kill-ring nil)) > (global-set-key (kbd "s-/") 'qdot/clear-kill-ring) > #+end_src > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > However when I do "s-/" emacs replied with > > ¢~¢w¢w¢w¢w > ¢x(wrong-type-argument commandp qdot/clear-kill-ring) in > ad-Advice-call-interactively > ¢¢¢w¢w¢w¢w > > So what should I have in my function please to get it working properly? You forgot to put (interactive) in qdot/clear-kill-ring, to indicate that it's a command, not just an ordinary function. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***