Re: emacs 18 mapping function keys

[Kevin Rodgers]

Glynn Smith wrote:

> In version 18 of emacs
>     (global-set-key (quote [f1]) (quote undo))
> produces the followng error:
> Wrong type argument: string p, [f1]
> This global-set-key command works just fine in version 19 or later.
>
> Using describe-key-briefly for F1 just results in a 11~ written at the
> first line first column of the current file being visited.
>
> I believe the vt100 key code for F1 is ESC11~ or ^[11~ so I tried
> changing the global-set-key statement to:
>     (global-set-key (quote "\e11~") (quote undo))
> This produced the following error:
> Key sequence ^[11~ uses invalid prefix characters.


I think that's because "\e1" is bound to the `digit-argument' command
and therefore can't be used as a prefix key.  Does Emacs 18 define the
`function-key-map' variable?

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