From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Describe current keymap Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:06:16 -0800 Message-ID: <001a01c94672$ed6a42f0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <6o5adhF1uur1U1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1226678847 4527 80.91.229.12 (14 Nov 2008 16:07:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "'Peter Dyballa'" , "'Will'" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 14 17:08:27 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L11DP-0007g0-AR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:08:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53171 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L11CE-0001OL-NX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:06:58 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L11Bp-0001Nb-4N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:06:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L11Bk-0001LW-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:06:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33575 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L11Bk-0001LN-LV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:06:28 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet12.oracle.com ([141.146.126.234]:34434) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L11Bk-0007VO-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:06:29 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet13.oracle.com (acsinet13.oracle.com [141.146.126.235]) by acsinet12.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mAEG6Ci5018820 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:06:13 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt700.oracle.com (acsmt700.oracle.com [141.146.40.70]) by acsinet13.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id mAEG6SaI000795; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:06:33 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/24.23.165.218) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:06:15 +0000 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AclGZxG99rEaBaFvRiSYHtKJ68yIwQAC1+tw X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: acsmt700.oracle.com [141.146.40.70] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090204.491DA1FD.00BF:SCFSTAT928724,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:59796 Archived-At: > > As I am always working with the remote emacs clients I wonder > > whether Emacs knows about this issues and can describe the current > > keyboard layout, e.g. similar to (not > > working). > > No, it can't. It either receives key events from X or ANSI > codes from a terminal (emulation) or whatever another windowing > system which client it is sends. Peter answered the question you meant to ask. Wrt your subject line, FWIW, `describe-keymap' in `help-fns+.el' will describe a keymap, including the current one. But that won't help with physical keyboard key locations. http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/help-fns%2b.el http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HelpPlus