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From: Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
Cc: Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Calling describe-key within el file
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2020 19:13:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.22.394.2010052113040453.21454@sdf.lonestar.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-685ed25f-320e-4f50-80cb-a34f7584fd4d-1601924923981@3c-app-mailcom-bs01>


>
> In Emacs, I can get a description of a keybinding combination by using 
> "M-x describe-key".
>
> Is it possible to call something like
>
> (describe-key "M-x <up>")
>

Yes: (describe-key (kbd "M-x <up>"))



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-05 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-05 19:08 Calling describe-key within el file Christopher Dimech
2020-10-05 19:13 ` Gregory Heytings via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2020-10-05 19:16   ` Christopher Dimech
2020-10-05 19:26 ` Eli Zaretskii

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