[OS X Emacs] FW: rebinding function keys

[Peter North]

Hi, aquamacs people. 

Thanks to the those of you who rote back with advice. 

The frame code works beautifully. Thanks for that.

However the function key bindings (global-set-key [f1] 'savefile) doesn't. 

As I wrote in my last email, I've tried variations like "<f1>", and (define-key rather than (global-set-key but nothing seems to override the bindings listed under C-h b. 

Nor can I find the aquamacs /.emacs file [typing C-x C-f ~/.emacs returns a message "no file found"] or where the C-h b bindings code is stored. 

This is standard aquamacs 2.2 installed by dragging the downloaded icon into applications.

Again thanks to everybody for reading. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Peter North




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From: macosx-emacs-bounces at email.esm.psu.edu [macosx-emacs-bounces at email.esm.psu.edu] On Behalf Of Peter Dyballa [Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE]
Sent: Sunday, 10 July 2011 10:30 PM
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Subject: Re: [OS X Emacs] FW: rebinding function keys

Am 10.07.2011 um 12:54 schrieb Peter North:

> (setq initial-frame-alist '((background-colour . "black")
> (setq initial-frame-list '((foreground-colour . "green")
> (setq default ((cursor-colour . "blue")
> (setq default-frame-alist '((background-colour . "black" (left . 0)
> (width . 141) (height . 44)))

You can get some structure into this with, for example:

        (setq initial-frame-alist
          (append (list
            '(background-color  . "azure")
            '(border-color      . "#4e3832")
            '(cursor-color      . "purple")
            '(foreground-color  . "grey10")
        ;    '(active-alpha     . 0.875)
        ;    '(inactive-alpha   . 0.75)
        ;    '(font . "fontset-10pt_free_mono")
        ;    '(font . "fontset-09pt_lucida_sans_typewriter")
        ;    '(font . "fontset-09pt_vera_sans_mono")
            '(top . 136) '(left . 666) '(width . 100) '(height . 57)
          ) initial-frame-alist))

When the background colour is set in default-frame-alist then you
don't need to set again in initial-frame-alist...


> (global-set-key <"f1->" 'find-file


This is a rather disastrous choice: a f1 key map already exists,
providing help, defined in . Couldn't you use your private setting
with right hand? Or bound to f2 (which has also some keys with
2C[olumns] functions bound to it)? Some f1 bindings are still free, so
you could:

        (global-set-key [f1 f2] 'info-apropos)
        (global-set-key [s-f1]  'replace-regexp)

C-h b might help to see all bound keys.

--
Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

When in doubt, use brute force.
                                – Ken Thompson


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