Re: introduction to lisp

[Kaushal Modi]

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 1:00 AM Emanuel Berg <moasen@zoho.com> wrote:

> But that evaluates to [f1], so then why not
>
>     (global-set-key [f1]
>       (lambda () (interactive) (message "Formula 1")) )
>
> ?
>

Not sure if that's a joke. Again, as I said, this approach is simply "what
is see is what you type"; with just kbd wrapped around. If you see <f1>,
the binding notation is (kbd "<f1>"), if you see C-c C-d, (kbd "C-c C-d"),
if you see <M-return>, (kbd "<M-return>"), and so on.


> Actually the only case I have against `kbd' is
> that it is more bulky and longer to type...
>

The value is not having to think if certain chars need to be escaped or
having to spend time doing one more eval to find the correct string.
-- 

Kaushal Modi