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From: vail@tegra.UUCP (Johnathan Vail)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: Re: Novice .emacs question
Message-ID: <641@atlas.tegra.UUCP>
Date: 5 Sep 89 14:26:42 GMT
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In-reply-to: dsmythe@cup.portal.com's message of 3 Sep 89 23:43:34 GMT


In article <21843@cup.portal.com> dsmythe@cup.portal.com (dave l smythe) writes:

   Hi.  I'd like to map some functions to my Sun function keys but can't
   seem to get it to work from .emacs.  When I try C-h c on an unchanged
   F9 key, it says something to the effect that C-X * i t has nothing 
   mapped to it.  When I use something of the form (global-set-key "\C-x*it" ...)
   in .emacs, there seems to be no effect.  I tries making a local copy
   of sun-keys.el and modifying the keymap with the Rn keys (arrow keys)


The problem is that there are other things loaded after .emacs that
will change things on you.  There are more elegant ways to fix it but
here is my work-around to set Sun function keys:


    (defun kluge-start ()
      "do the inits that can't be done in the init file (bletch!)"

      (global-set-key "\C-x*bt" 'eval-defun))	; F2 key, mint 'try-it'


    (setq window-setup-hook 'kluge-start)


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