From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Newbie questions Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:15:17 +0100 Message-ID: <617B4D28-92A9-4E71-B8BE-4C9FE324AFF7@Web.DE> References: <1166976047.172487.194790@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1166980771 10277 80.91.229.10 (24 Dec 2006 17:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 17:19:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 24 18:19:28 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 1GyX0O-00068M-Hz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:19:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyX0N-0008Be-Tk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:19:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GyWxI-0004WW-L1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:16:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GyWxG-0004VL-Sd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:16:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GyWxG-0004V4-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:16:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [217.72.192.221] (helo=fmmailgate01.web.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GyWxG-0007oF-8I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:16:10 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E59E4B838F0; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:15:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [84.245.166.215] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (WEB.DE 4.107 #114) id 1GyWwS-0005tw-00; Sun, 24 Dec 2006 18:15:20 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1166976047.172487.194790@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com> X-Image-Url: http://homepage.mac.com/sparifankal/.cv/thumbs/me.thumbnail Original-To: ocelot1970@gmail.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de 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:39903 Archived-At: Am 24.12.2006 um 17:00 schrieb ocelot1970@gmail.com: > 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. C-h b > > 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? Approximately C-h a TAB Many functions of that list are not interactive, so they might fail to function. > > 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? Those your window manager catches. C-q is used in GNU Emacs to escape things. For example it works hardly otherwise than via C-q TAB to add a TAB as TAB into a list of characters you are going to search for ... -- Greetings Pete "Give a man a fish, and you've fed him for a day. Teach him to fish, and you've depleted the lake."