Question

The key bindings I’ve defined in my .emacs file aren’t working. Here’s the file:

;init modes
(menu-bar-mode 0)
(tool-bar-mode 0)
(cua-mode)
(column-number-mode)
(fset 'perl-mode 'cperl-mode)
(cperl-set-style PerlStyle)

;keymappings
(global-set-key [f12] 'save-buffer)
(global-set-key [S-f12] 'write-file)
(global-set-key [f7] 'ispell)
(global-set-key [up] 'scroll-one-line-up)
(global-set-key [down] 'scroll-one-line-down)

;functions
(defun scroll-one-line-up (&optional arg)
  (interactive "p")
  (scroll-up (or arg 1)))
(defun scroll-one-line-down (&optional arg)
  (interactive "p")
  (scroll-down (or arg 1)))

I know Emacs parses the file since everything else seems to work. It’s just that the keys are not being bound.

How can I make it work?

Answer 1

You have an error in your .emacs at line:

(cperl-set-style PerlStyle)

It should be written as:

(cperl-set-style 'PerlStyle)

Since it raises an error that stops parsing .emacs at that point, your key bindings won’t be evaluated.