RE: How can in I define a keystroke in Xemacs

I'm not sure if xemacs-news was the right place to post this;
someone correct me if I'm wrong.

You can put this in your init.el file:

(global-set-key [(control c) (meta a)] 'append-to-file)

so that you can use C-c M-a to do append-to-file.
I tried using "meta x" as you wanted but XEmacs
doesn't like it.  Maybe there's a restriction to binding
keys to it, or maybe I'm not doing it correctly.

Hopefully someone will reply if there's a better way than
what I described.


WRT your "copy-to-file" question, maybe "write-region" is
what you're looking for?  ( "C-h a region" would have found
that command for you.)


hth
d

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Beck-Ratzka [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:09 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: How can in I define a keystroke in Xemacs

Hello Xemacs users,

I want to define a keystroke with the command

M-x
append-to-file

This commands appends a marked region a file.

E.g., this should be the keystroke

M-x M-a

How can I achieve this??

Another question. Is there any command available like (let me say)
copy-to-file, which copies (instead of appending) a markes region to a
file?

Thank you for the help!!

Alexander