Xemacs Problem

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Timothy A Zitzer writes:

 > Yes I've saved the init.el file and tried using the f12 key which gave me 
 > the "function definition is void" message.  A reply from Aidan Kehoe 
 > seemed to make sense, but I'm not sure how to define the function 
 > gold-bidning as I assumed it was built-in.

Unlike Emacs, XEmacs has unbundled a lot of applications.  Do you have
the edt libraries installed?  (Start xemacs, type M-x locate-library
RET edt RET; if you have it, an absolute file name will appear in the
echo area, if you don't, you'll get a "Not Found" error.)

If it is installed, then try putting this in your init.el:

  (require 'edt)
  (edt-bind-function-key-default "F12" 
    'edt-default-gold-map 'edt-user-gold-map )

Also try without the single quotes on the edt-maps if that doesn't work.

 > I cc'd you a copy of the entire init.el file if it helps.

Thank you.  For now I think it's irrelevant; I believe that the
problem is that you're not getting the library loaded.

BTW, this isn't (AFAICS) a bug that needs developer attention.  While
we're not stuffy about such requests on this list (at the moment,
policy subject to change with appropriate warning :-), you might get
better results posting to the comp.emacs.xemacs group (if you haven't
done so already), because there may be users with experience with the
edt package.