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From: georgiou@rex.cs.tulane.edu (George Georgiou)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: (Re)defining numeric keypad keys
Message-ID: <1755@rex.cs.tulane.edu>
Date: 4 Jan 90 09:39:52 GMT
Reply-To: georgiou@rex.cs.tulane.edu (George Georgiou)
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Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
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(GNU Emacs 18.55.3, berkeley-unix)
I am trying to redefine some numeric keypad keys on a vt100 compatible
terminal, but run into the following problem:

The following line in .emacs doesn't seem change anything in any mode,
that is to redefine the key "7" (on the numeric keypad) to run the
function save-buffer. (OK, this is just an example to illustrate the
point).

		(global-set-key "\M-Ow" 'save-buffer)

When I run the command using M-x global-set-key, it works fine.

But the following line in .emacs

	 (define-key text-mode-map "\M-Ow" 'save-buffer)

does the job for text-mode.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks,
-- 

George Georgiou
Computer Science Department
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
georgiou@rex.cs.tulane.edu