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Open an RMAIL file. 2. M-x rmail-mode 3. Type `h' to generate rmail-summary window for the RMAIL file and switch to the RMAIL-summary buffer/window. 4. Type `M-x describe-key-briefly' and then type `r'. I would expect the "r" key to be described in the minibuffer, but it is n= ot. It only seems to work if you use `C-h c'. This is with `emacs -Q'. This doesn't have anything to do with rmail-mode, I think. I'm just using= it to illustrate the issue. This is a regression, but I'm not sure from when. I know `M-x describe-key-briefly' works in Emacs 21.2. In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of 2019-11-19 built on heasarcdev Windowing system distributor 'Scientific Linux', version 11.0.11704000 System Description: Scientific Linux release 6.10 (Carbon) Recent messages: Checking 176 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/emacs-l= isp... Checking 24 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/cedet... Checking 57 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/calendar= ... Checking 87 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/calc... Checking 105 files in /software/usr/contrib/share/emacs/26.3/lisp/obsolet= e... Checking for load-path shadows...done Type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar):=20 Please type y, n, ! or SPC (the space bar): [3 times] Quit You can run the command =91switch-to-buffer=92 with C-x b r runs the command rmail-summary-reply Configured using: 'configure --prefix=3D/software/usr/contrib --exec-prefix=3D/software/usr/contrib/linux-6.x --with-x-toolkit=3Dlucid --with-xft=3Dyes --with-toolkit-scroll-bars=3Dno --with-gif=3Dno --with-tiff=3Dno --with-gnutls=3Dno' Configured features: XAW3D XPM JPEG PNG SOUND GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY LIBSELINUX LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB LUCID X11 XDBE XIM THREADS Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=3Dnone locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix Major mode: RMAIL Summary Minor modes in effect: tooltip-mode: t global-eldoc-mode: t electric-indent-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t tool-bar-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t blink-cursor-mode: t auto-composition-mode: t auto-encryption-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t buffer-read-only: t line-number-mode: t transient-mark-mode: t Load-path shadows: None found. 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