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From: escott@BONNIE.UCI.EDU (Scott Menter)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Key Bindings in GNU Emacs
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Date: Tue, 2-Sep-86 19:40:38 EDT
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Hello again, Emacs folk.  Time for another question -- this time I
think I'm really missing something:

Is there an easy way to bind a key to a command that takes an
argument?  I'd like the keystroke to provide the argument, not make
the user do so with C-u or something.

The way I've been doing this is something like the following:

(defun scroll-up-one-line ( ) "Emulate the Gosling C-z"
  (interactive)
  (scroll-up 1))
(global-set-key "whatever" 'scroll-up-one-line)

Then I said, "Hey, Scott, I'll bet you could do it this way instead:"

(defmacro scroll-up-one-line ( ) "Same as above, but a macro"
  (scroll-up 1))
(global-set-key "whatever" 'scroll-up-one-line)

But noooo, because the 2nd argument to "global-set-key" needs to be a
command (commandp => t).  Using "interactive" in the macro didn't
help, either.

Well, do I really need to define a new command every time I want to do
this?  Seems like a waste...

Thanks yet again, Gnurus!

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