In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, JS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> In my .emacs file I have made this:
>
> (global-set-key "\C-z" 'shell)
>
> And it works fine when I restart emacs.
>
>
>
>
> But when I do this:
>
> (global-set-key "\M-a" 'comment-dwim)
>
> I get this error when I restart:
>
>
>
>
> An error has occurred while loading `/home/johs/.emacs':
>
> Symbol's function definition is void: global-set-key
>
> To ensure normal operation, you should investigate the cause
> of the error in your initialization file and remove it. Start
> Emacs with the `--debug-init' option to view a complete error
> backtrace
> Loading view...done
>
> ------------------------
>
> I have then tried to start emacs like this: emacs --debug-init and then I
> get this:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function global-set-key )
It looks to me like there's a strange character in your file after
'global-set-key', so it's trying to find a function named
global-set-key<strangechar>. Notice the space before the close-paren --
that's not normal. Normally Emacs Lisp will escape space characters in
symbol names, so I suspect it's an international character that happens
to look like space.
> (global-set-key "á" (quote comment-dwim))
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "~/.emacs" nil t)
> load-with-code-conversion("/home/johs/.emacs" "~/.emacs" t t)
> load("~/.emacs" t t)
> #[nil " …—
> ----------------------------
>
>
> Why is it not possible to write the second statement?
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Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Arlington, MA
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