kayvan@APPLE.COM (Kayvan Sylvan) (03/04/91)
Erik Hennum writes: > I am a writer (not a Lisp programmer) trying to take greater > advantage of the glory that is emacs. I'm trying to bind > keys to commands. For example: > > (global-set-key "\M-p" '(move-to-window-line 0)) > > Emacs reads the previous line in my .emacs without complaint. > When I press Meta-p, however, I get: > > Wrong type argument: commandp, (move-to-window-line 0) You can only bind keys to commands (that's what the error message is telling you). You can use the lambda form, however, like this: (global-set-key "\M-p" '(lambda () (interactive) (move-to-window-line 0))) The "(interactive)" tells Emacs this is a command (interactively callable function). ---Kayvan | Kayvan Sylvan Unix/C, GNU tools 879 Lewiston Drive 408-978-1407 | | Sylvan Associates GUIs, Databases San Jose, CA 95136 Think Globally | | Networking, X apple!satyr!kayvan Act Locally | | === Currently looking for contracts === Hire me now! Avoid the rush! === |