From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why is M-; not showing up in C-h m help? Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:34:18 +0530 Message-ID: <8761sgdn59.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383066295 7781 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2013 17:04:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 17:04:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 29 18:04:58 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 1VbCiv-0004gY-Bj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:04:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbCiu-0000z8-Qk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:04:56 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbCic-0000xL-5j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:04:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbCiU-000502-Rn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:04:38 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60278) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbCiU-0004zv-Kp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:04:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VbCiS-0004Xl-T0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:04:28 +0100 Original-Received: from 122.172.253.197 ([122.172.253.197]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:04:28 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.172.253.197 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:04:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.172.253.197 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ga+1OxPABo1ywB7l2QJU0EEAJVs= 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:94251 Archived-At: I just noticed that M-; (comment-dwim) does not show in C-h m for the language/source code one is writing the script for. Why is that? In sh-mode,python mode it's not there at all. Given that commenting/uncommenting is fairly common task in source editing, shouldn't the key map be part of the mode help too? It does show up under C-h k but that's irrelevant to a new user of a language-mode. I only noticed this now because of a post in comp.Emacs from someone asking for help on commenting. sivaram --