Binding function keys in carbon-emacs

Question

While I was using the "normal" X11 emacs under Snow Leopard, my profile.el file had a line:

    (global-set-key [f14] 'my_function)

However this binding does not work with carbon-emacs. What is strange is that if I execute the command "M-x global-set-key", and give it the right arguments (pressing the F14 key), it works!

Any hints?

-- Tsf

Using the fink build of carbon-emacs22 it works as expected. (Well, I have a MacBook, thus no f14, and I tested it with f6.) — dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten, Feb 11 '10 at 23:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 12 '10 at 20:32

My line

   (global-set-key [f14] 'my_function)

was in an auxiliary profile.el file loaded by the command

   (load "profile")

in my .emacs file. When I moved it to the .emacs file itself, it worked! As a matter of fact the same happened with another definition I was having troubles with:

   (setq visible-bell t)

used to disable unpleasant sounds.

-- Tsf

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 11 '10 at 22:16

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I'm using the normal gnu emacs for mac, probably from one of the vanilla builds..., and [f14] works fine for me... why are you using a non-standard emacs?

Granted, i'm using emacs 22, so maybe things changed, but I doubt it...

answered Feb 11 '10 at 22:16

Brian Postow

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I think carbon-emacs is better integrated with Mac OS X. -- tsf – Tsf Feb 11 '10 at 23:58

Binding function keys in carbon-emacs

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