From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help with global-set-key
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 21:01:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <g0teud$1ut$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3297bc90805152023k60d25236l60b4beb276119d94@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-20 3:01 UTC|newest]
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2008-05-16 3:23 help with global-set-key Rich E
2008-05-20 3:01 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2008-05-20 4:38 ` Rich E
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2008-05-16 20:13 ` weber
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