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There is a key on my keyboard which I do not want to do anything. By default when I press it I get a message in my mini-buffer reading <cancel> is not defined. I want to silence that message.

I successfully achieved that with:

(define-key global-map (kbd "<cancel>") (lambda () (interactive)))

But wanted to know if there is a more semantic way of achieving this.

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You can bind it to the function ignore:

(global-set-key (kbd "<cancel>") #'ignore)
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  • Which is essentially what the OP was doing, just a little more concise.
    – MAP
    Commented Jan 1, 2017 at 1:47

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