Re: global-set-key with function taking arguments

[William Xu]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> William Xu wrote:
>
>> You could define a macro wraper around: 
>>
>> (defmacro my-make-interactive (&rest body)
>>   `(lambda ()
>>      (interactive)
>>      (progn ,@body)))
>>
>> (global-set-key (kbd "C-H-<up>") (my-make-interactive (transpose-paragraphs 
>> -1)))
>
> Well, maybe you could, but what would you gain from that?

Not really much, perhaps saving two parens (for writing and reading), compared 
with lambda. :)

I agree, for anything more than a few lines, a custom function would be better. 

-- 
William