From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?B?S2FpIEdyb8Ofam9oYW5u?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is M-; not showing up in C-h m help? Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:17:32 +0100 Message-ID: <5271776C.2080309@gmx.net> References: <8761sgdn59.fsf@gmail.com> <878uxb7yut.fsf@web.de> <87r4b2y583.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383167875 15220 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2013 21:17:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 21:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 30 22:17:57 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbd9J-0003sm-Bc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:17:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54460 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbd9I-0000hS-TN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:17:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33334) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbd90-0000h5-KJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:17:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbd8t-0005GQ-B4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:17:38 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51648) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbd8t-0005GJ-3w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 17:17:31 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbd8q-0003gL-Gt for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:17:28 +0100 Original-Received: from 89.204.137.130 ([89.204.137.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:17:28 +0100 Original-Received: from kai.grossjohann by 89.204.137.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 22:17:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 89.204.137.130 User-Agent: Postbox 3.0.8 (Macintosh/20130427) In-Reply-To: <87r4b2y583.fsf@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94278 Archived-At: Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30 2013,Michael Heerdegen wrote: > > > [snipped 11 lines] > >> The binding is not mode specific, it's defined in the `global-map'. >> With other words, there are no different `comment-dwim' commands for >> every major mode, there is only one general `comment-dwim' working for >> all correctly defined major modes. >> >> C-h m describes only mode specific bindings; that's why the binding >> doesn't show up there. >> > > well, wouldn't a reasonable subset of the global keymap be made part of > the local mode? Someone starting off on Emacs wouldn't know at all, > would they? On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, you don't want to show and in the output of C-h m. So it's hard to find the right boundary. Kai