[SOLVED] Re: Cannot set F6 key in .emacs nor in site-start.el

[Alexandre Oberlin]

Thanks a lot Bernardo for your suggestions.

I restart emacs to cancel manual key assignment:
F6 output:
<f6> is undefined

F6 C-h l output:
<f6> C-h l

C-h k F6 output:
<f6> is undefined

My other global-set-key work fine from site-start.el. Now if i put the 
(global-set-key  [f6] 'other-window) at the end of .emacs as you 
suggested, IT WORKS! though I'd bet I tried it before (my .emacs has 
changed since then). I'll try to spot the offending command.

I once had a similar problem on Fedora 14 due to a
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/default.el
which was loaded after .emacs.
However this had been fixed using
(setq inhibit-default-init t)
and my default.el file is empty anyway.

Cheers,

Alexandre

On 05/01/2012 02:38 PM, Bernardo wrote:
> > what do you see after hitting F6 and then C-h k?
>
> this should've been: F6 then C-h l
> but you can also try C-h k f6