Re: Binding meta and arrow

[Ian Crowther]

> Just use a name of a function instead of the string.  For example:
>     (global-set-key [M-left] 'beginning-of-line)
> (The way you used global-set-key is meant for macros: the thing inside
> quotes should be a sequence of one or more keys, it cannot be an
> arbitrary string, and it certainly isn't displayed in the echo area,
> it's fed back to the Emacs keyboard input.)

Well thanks, but I have exactly the same problem. If I do:

        (global-set-key [left] 'beginning-of-line)

it does exactly what I expect. I press left and it goes to the line start. 
The following still don't work:

        (global-set-key [M-left] 'beginning-of-line)
        (global-set-key [A-left] 'beginning-of-line)
        (global-set-key [alt left] 'beginning-of-line)
        (global-set-key [meta left] 'beginning-of-line)

After evaluating all of them I still get "ESC <left> is undefined" if I do 
"C-h c M-left".

Thanks for correcting my fumbled attempt at lisp, but I'm still stuck. 
Anybody got any other ideas?