Re: Trouble with global-set-key to map meta-g with 'goto-line

[B. T. Raven]

"David Lee" <live4thee@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.642.1145542481.9609.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> Hi, all
> I am a beginner with GNU Emacs(21.3.1). I added this line to ~/.emacs
> (global-set-key [(meta-g)] 'goto-line)
> but it doesn't work for me, and minibuffer gave this hint:
>   Set face: default (M-g d), bold (M-g b), italic (M-g i)..
>
> Seems that my settings didn't take effects.
>
> Anything wrong?
>
> [ I'm using SuSE 10.0, and I tried with failure under FC5, either. ]
>
> Thanks in advance.

It looks like M-g is already reserved as a prefix. In version 22.0.50 M-g
g runs 'goto-line. Try putting this in *scratch* and evaluating it. (C-j
after close paren of the form):

(global-set-key "\C-cg" ('goto-line)

I think that C-c is a mapping reserved for user bindings. That way you
won't have to mess with the default bindings into which a lot of thought
has gone. If C-c g is okay with you, you can put it in your .emacs.

Ed.