set-mark bug in emacs

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From: Brian Lloyd
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 1990 02:45

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Environment:
SCO UNIX (386) V3.2
GNU Emacs 18.55.1

Problem:

I have run across what appears to be a bug when I try to globally
rebind the key <meta><space> to the set-mark function.  I have the
following in my .emacs file:

(define-key global-map "\M- " 'set-mark)

When I press <meta><space> I get the following message in the
minibuffer:

"Wrong type argument:  commandp, set-mark"

The message from the backtrace was:

Signalling: (wrong-type-argument commandp set-mark)
* call-interactively(set-mark)

I can interactively rebind <meta><space> to set-mark with the
global-set-key command without any problem but it is tedious to do so.
Have I made a mistake or is this really a bug?

Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN                                    Telebit Corporation
brian@telebit.com                                      (408) 745-3103

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