bug#22673: 24.5; global set key neg freaks out emacs

[Andreas Schwab]

Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> writes:

> The documentation for the `global-set-key` function, at least in 24.5.3
> and in the emacs-25 branch as at d9ea7950, doesn't mention this
> possibility:
>
>    (global-set-key KEY COMMAND) 
>
>    Give KEY a global binding as COMMAND.  COMMAND is the command
> definition to use; usually it is a symbol naming an
> interactively-callable function.
>
> Perhaps it should be modified to refer to COMMAND-OR-VECTOR?

A vector is a kind of command.  It's a keyboard macro.

ELISP> (commandp [?¬])
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For non-interactive use, define-key is preferred, which has all details.

Andreas.

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