Re: Trying to global-set-key

[Kevin Rodgers]

Harshdeep S Jawanda wrote:

> I want to global-set-key C-u 1 C-v (scroll-up) to C-down in my .emacs 
> file. How do I do that?


You can't, exactly: that would mean that `C-u 1' is a prefix key, but `C-u'
is already bound to universal-argument (which is a binding you want to retain
-- trust me).  But if you mean that you want to be able to type C-down instead
of `C-u 1 C-v', then the simplest thing is to define a keyboard macro:

(global-set-key [C-down] (kbd "C-u 1 C-v"))


> As a starting point I tried: (global-set-key [C-down] 'scroll-up), but 
> that doesn't seem to do even a simple scroll-up.  When I do C-h a for 
> scroll-up, the keybinding shows up, but it doesn't seem to work.

That ought to work, but perhaps a local key binding is shadowing the global
binding.  What happens if you type `C-h k' followed by C-down?  What does
`C-h l' show immediately after that?

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