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

[Giorgos Pontikakis]

David Lee <live4thee@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I use 

(define-key global-map (kbd "M-g") 'goto-line)

and works fine in emacs 21.4 (which comes bundled with slackware 10)
and emacs 22.0.50.1 (from CVS). I don't know if this is a specific
problem with emacs 21.3 but I doubt it. 

Maybe you should try starting with emacs -q and try executing the
above expression within the scratch buffer. Does this work?

Hope this helps,

-- Giorgos