keybinding problem

keybinding problem

[Lowell]

In my .emacs, I have the following line:
(global-set-key [ C-/ ] 'hippie-expand)

But when I do C-h k C-/, it says that that key combo is bound to undo. 
Why does my binding not stay?

Lowell

Re: keybinding problem

[David Andersson]

Lowell <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:

> In my .emacs, I have the following line:
> (global-set-key [ C-/ ] 'hippie-expand)
> 
> But when I do C-h k C-/, it says that that key combo is bound to undo. 
> Why does my binding not stay?

Try

(global-set-key [(control /)] 'hippie-expand)

It should work in many versions of emacs.

Re: keybinding problem

[Kevin Rodgers]

David Andersson wrote:

> Lowell <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:
> 
>>In my .emacs, I have the following line:
>>(global-set-key [ C-/ ] 'hippie-expand)
>>
>>But when I do C-h k C-/, it says that that key combo is bound to undo. 
>>Why does my binding not stay?


Because you are binding the Control-modified slash function key, which

probably does not exist.  Instead of the C-/ symbol, you need to specify
the C-/ character:


[?\C-/]


> Try
> 
> (global-set-key [(control /)] 'hippie-expand)

Or as Kai would point out: (kbd "C-/")


-- 
Kevin Rodgers