From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ocelot1970@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Newbie questions Date: 24 Dec 2006 08:00:47 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1166976047.172487.194790@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166978426 4642 80.91.229.10 (24 Dec 2006 16:40:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:40:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 17:40:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GyWOd-0001vH-Ut for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:40:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyWOd-0000R9-Gu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:40:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!postnews.google.com!42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.214.241.152 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1166976052 9487 127.0.0.1 (24 Dec 2006 16:00:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 16:00:52 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061206 Firefox/1.5.0.9,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com; posting-host=68.214.241.152; posting-account=rx3E2Q0AAADr3RYIEqglV4zinN_XDATh Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144299 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:39900 Archived-At: I have just started exploring emacs and elisp. Ergo, I have some questions. 1) Is there a way to see what a keyboard shortcut is currently bound to? Before I write my own programs making my own, I want to make sure I'm not unbinding something really important. 2) Is there a way to see a list of all functions that can possible be bound to keymappings, the list of files they appear in, and their descriptions? 3) Are there any key combos with meta and ctrl that are not allowed when creating my own key bindings? Any reason why I wouldn't use C-q, C-w, C-e, etc. just go through the keyboard and use what's not used yet?