Re: help with global-set-key

[Rich E]

Ooh, nice!  That works.  I'll have a look at the manual next time I try something like that, didn't even kow about vectors (don't really know anything about lisp, on that matter).

cheers,
rich

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> wrote:

Rich E wrote:

Hi,

I found this custom command at http://www.crsr.net/Notes/Emacs.html :

;;; Use "%" to jump to the matching parenthesis.
(defun goto-match-paren (arg)
 "Go to the matching parenthesis if on parenthesis, otherwise insert
the character typed."
 (interactive "p")
 (cond ((looking-at "\\s\(") (forward-list 1) (backward-char 1))
   ((looking-at "\\s\)") (forward-char 1) (backward-list 1))
   (t                    (self-insert-command (or arg 1))) ))
(global-set-key "%" 'goto-match-paren)



I am trying to change the global-set-key to something like "\C-.", but this isn't an acceptable 'string and I don't know why.  Can anyone help?

Control-period is not an ASCII character, so it cannot be included in a
string.  But it can be included in a vector: [?\C-.]  See the "String
Basics" node of the Emacs Lisp manual.

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA