From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Bensen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Looking for a sneaky key binding Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:49:16 -0600 Organization: Prairienet, The Community Network For East Central Illinois Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1173069640 29560 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2007 04:40:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 04:40:40 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 05 05:40:31 2007 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 1HO4zu-0006sa-PB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 05 Mar 2007 05:40:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HO4zu-0007s0-Av for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2007 23:40:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.ks.uiuc.edu!news.prairienet.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: slip-98.prairienet.org Original-X-Trace: wildfire.prairienet.org 1173066276 8886 192.17.3.118 (5 Mar 2007 03:44:36 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmgr@prairienet.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 03:44:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:146062 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:41667 Archived-At: Dan Bensen wrote: > Is kbd documented somewhere? I don't see it in the elisp or > emacs manuals or google. I found the description with C-h f, which led to insert-kbd-macro, but neither entry describes the syntax of the string for the key sequence. Also, I'm interested in how someone is supposed to find it by themself without having to be told about it, considering it seems pretty useful for defining bindings. -- Dan www.prairienet.org/~dsb