From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Getting the command that a certain menu function runs? Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:29:44 +0200 Message-ID: <48F4C8F8.5020506@gmail.com> References: <87ljwrfcr4.fsf@pcdesk.net> <87wsgbp4pz.fsf@zeekat.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224002092 5041 80.91.229.12 (14 Oct 2008 16:34:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:34:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 14 18:35:49 2008 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 1Kpmob-0007qz-26 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:32:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55725 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KpmnW-0002Sb-De for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpmn4-0002Ns-4F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:30:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpmmz-0002Kb-V0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:30:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58170 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kpmmy-0002Ju-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:30:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:53651) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kpmmy-0006CI-FR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:30:28 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:62429 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1Kpmmf-0007mR-9J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:30:22 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87wsgbp4pz.fsf@zeekat.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 081013-0, 2008-10-13), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1Kpmmf-0007mR-9J. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1Kpmmf-0007mR-9J dfe03592b1fd79d89805e4b61d4cb600 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:58768 Archived-At: Joost Diepenmaat wrote: > Tyler Spivey writes: > >> Hello. I would like to know how to find the function that is executed by >> a menu command on the menubar. describe-key isn't working for me, since >> I don't use a mouse, and f10/m-` just describes the function for opening >> the menubar. For example, in gnus, I would like to find the M-x >> equivalent of Post>Send a message (mail or news). > > I'm working on a replacement for tmm-menu, at > http://github.com/joodie/iswitch-menu/tree/master > > If you're willing to use that, you can find the last chosen entry by > doing > > M-x describe-variable iswitch-menu-last-chosen > > (a 3-element list, where the last element is the command executed) Another possibility on ms windows: If you are using the patched version of Emacs+EmacsW32 you can use C-h k and then access the menu with the Alt key.