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: Re: Why is M-; not showing up in C-h m help? Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:08:04 +0530 Message-ID: <87r4b2y583.fsf@gmail.com> References: <8761sgdn59.fsf@gmail.com> <878uxb7yut.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383158323 28343 80.91.229.3 (30 Oct 2013 18:38:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:38:43 +0000 (UTC) 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 19:38:46 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 1VbafC-0008SZ-90 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:38:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53925 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbafB-0005vI-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:38:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbaeu-0005tq-Hg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:38:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbaen-00009g-8V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:38:24 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54795) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbaen-00009a-0l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 14:38:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vbaek-0008Jc-El for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:38:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 122.167.241.155 ([122.167.241.155]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:38:14 +0100 Original-Received: from nsivaram.net by 122.167.241.155 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2013 19:38:14 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 122.167.241.155 User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Y5Hgz5bisN3q4TMmeiUwHloemmw= 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:94276 Archived-At: 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? sivaram --