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Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Nov 9, 9:37 pm, des...@verizon.net wrote:
>> You need to issue that in each mode you want to fool with.
>>
>> I'm not sure what you mean by keymap variables.
>> Are you after all the modes you are using?
>
> Yes, I'm after *all* keymaps.  Since `describe-variable' can list all
> global variables, I think it can be done.  I know I will get some
> false-positives with a regex-based approach, but I will just discard
> variables which are not keymaps.

Keymaps are created on the fly.

Use MH-E and you get the mh-folder-map and a bunch of other maps.

If you haven't used mh-e, the map doesn't exist.

What you want would have to be done with grep and the .el files
and would still only see what you have installed.