Re: Binding M-n in info mode.

[Deniz Dogan]

On 2011-09-02 11:14, Dani Moncayo wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I want to bind M-p/M-n globally to
> backward-paragraph/forward-paragraph, so that I wrote this in my
> .emacs:

Cool idea! ;)

>    (define-key global-map "\M-p" 'backward-paragraph)
>    (define-key global-map "\M-n" 'forward-paragraph)
>
> It worked right, but then I realized that info mode binds M-n to
> clone-buffer.  In this mode I also want to bind M-n to
> forward-paragraph, so that I added this:
>
>    (define-key Info-mode-map "\M-n" 'forward-paragraph)
>
> The problem is that this last remapping fails when starting my Emacs
> because, at that time, the variable Info-mode-map doesn't not exits.
>
> What is the right way of solving this?
>
> TIA

You could either do it Eli's way or "my" way:

(eval-after-load "info"
  '(define-key Info-mode-map (kbd "M-n") 'forward-paragraph))

I'm not sure which is "better".