Re: Bug in global-set-key

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Igor Lyubashevskiy wrote:

>       (global-set-key "\C-x\C-3" 'hscroll-mode)
> 
> actually assigns hscrill-mode to \C-x\C-s instead of \C-x\C-3.
> \C-hk for \C-x\C-3 still shows "no key assigned" but
> \C-hk for \C-x\C-s now shows hscroll-mode

I think C-3 is not a valid character, so it cannot be used in a string
(Emacs 21.1 signals an error if I try).  Try this instead:

   (global-set-key [?\C-x ?\C-3] 'hscroll-mode)

Note that C-3 will not work on most character terminals, so perhaps
it's not a good idea to use it as a key binding.