From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs keys Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:52:24 +0200 Message-ID: <87myknkptj.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215881742 32706 80.91.229.12 (12 Jul 2008 16:55:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:55:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 12 18:56:30 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 1KHiOb-0000Wm-GQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:56:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHiNj-0002dK-Dq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:55:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHiNQ-0002bI-8M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:55:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KHiNO-0002Z7-M5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:55:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40700 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KHiNO-0002Ys-In for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [151.61.142.185] (port=50782 helo=ambire.localdomain) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHiNO-0006Fl-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 12:55:14 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KHiKe-0000nJ-DF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:52:24 +0200 In-Reply-To: (William Xu's message of "Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:02:03 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:55489 Archived-At: () William Xu () Sat, 12 Jul 2008 22:02:03 +0900 So, `dabbrev-expand' is the function name the OP wants. Emacs tells you what command is bound to a key sequence SEQUENCE given the command: C-h c SEQUENCE For example: `C-h c C-h c' shows in the echo area: "C-h c runs the command describe-key-briefly" thi