RE: HELP: One Bindkey for Two Different Commands

[Drew Adams]

> Why waste two bindkeys on two similar commands when you can simply
> write a function to choose the between commands based on context?
>
> Unfortunately,  this very simple idea doesn't seem to work for me.
> Here's what I have in my .emacs so far:
>
> (defun ya-ya ()
>   (if (cdr (window-list))
>       'other-window
>     'switch-to-buffer))
>
> (global-set-key "\M-o" (ya-ya))
> Any ideas how this might be accomplished?

1. To turn a function into a command, add an `interactive' spec.

The functions other-window and switch-to-buffer require arguments.

The second argument to global-set-key is a command, not a list such as you
have supplied.

Read the Emacs Lisp manual a bit. Better yet, read the manual Emacs Lisp
Introduction.