Re: Basic elisp question: bind key to function with arg

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 01/26/2015 01:12 AM, torys.anderson@gmail.com (Tory S. Anderson) wrote:
> I have the following in my emacs init, and it works fine:
>
>      (global-set-key [C-up] 'enlarge-window)
>      (global-set-key [C-down] (lambda () (interactive)
>                                 (enlarge-window -1)))
>
> But it seems awkward to me that I need to add all the extra just to pass a -1 
> arg to the function, so I'm suspecting there's a simpler way to write this. Any 
> tips?

No, that's how you do it. Or you create a named function doing the same, 
and bind it instead.