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Cannot set key for M-up in .emacs


From: Jon
Subject: Cannot set key for M-up in .emacs
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:31:58 -0000
User-agent: G2/1.0

I wanted to define Meta-up and Meta-down (undefined by default) to run
some keyboard macros.  No problem doing this for the current session
via M-x global-set-key.

But I cannot figure out how to get this to work in my ~/.emacs file so
that it happens on startup every time.

For example I have tried all of these and none work:
;(global-set-key "\e-<up>" 'jon-scroll-one-line-
up)
;(global-set-key "\M-<up>" 'jon-scroll-one-line-
up)
;(global-set-key "\M-up" 'jon-scroll-one-line-
up)
;(global-set-key [M-up] 'jon-scroll-one-line-
up)
;(global-set-key "\e<up>" 'jon-scroll-one-line-
up)
;(global-set-key "\e-up" 'jon-scroll-one-line-
up)
;(global-set-key (kbd "E-<up>") 'jon-scroll-one-line-
up)
;(global-set-key (kbd "M-<up>") 'jon-scroll-one-line-up)

I can get it to work for Meta-p, for example:
(global-set-key "\M-p" 'jon-scroll-one-line-up) ;
works!

But not for Meta-up.

Ideas?


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