Re: Trying to bind a new key in C mode

[Jim Hunter]

August <fusionfive@comhem.se> writes:

> On fre, 2005-02-11 at 18:09 -0600, Jim Hunter wrote:
> > I would like to bind C-c c to run the 'compile' function in C mode 
> > (and, ultimately, C-c r to run 'recompile'), but cannot get it to
> > work.  Unfortunately, I know nothing about Lisp, so I simply copied
> > the example from the Emacs info page "Local Keymaps" and modified it
> > to this (in my .emacs file):
> > 
> > (add-hook 'c-mode-hook
> >             '(lambda ()
> >                (define-key c-mode-map "\C-cc" 'compile)))
> > 
> 
> Try
> 
> (add-hook 'c-mode-hook
>           '(lambda () (local-set-key "\C-cc" 'compile)))
> 
[snip]

Thanks very much for the reply.  When your example also didn't work,
I realized that cc-mode might be loading before that part of .emacs was
processed.  Moving the add-hook call before my desktop was loaded fixed
it -- both for your example and the original example.

Thanks again!

Jim