Re: Trouble with global-set-key to map meta-g with 'goto-line

[Barry Margolin]

In article <874q0oqf2v.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>,
 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > I am a beginner with GNU Emacs(21.3.1). I added this line to ~/.emacs
> >     (global-set-key [(meta-g)] 'goto-line)
>                               ^
>                              ^^^
> 
> That should be a space, otherwise you're trying to bind the "meta-g" key,
> which I'm pretty sure you don't have on your keyboard.

If you're going to use ASCII art as a pointer, mae sure you're using a 
fixed-width font.  Your arrow is pointing to the quote before goto-line, 
not the hyphen in meta-g.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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