describe-bindings does not list text properties and overlay bindings!

describe-bindings does not list text properties and overlay bindings!

[jidanni]

Dear Emacs Professionals/Nurds,

Since back in the 1980's I've depended on C-h b to tell me what all the
keys are currently bound to in the buffer I'm in.

I even printed them out on paper and studied them all.

  C-h b runs the command describe-bindings, which is an interactive
  compiled Lisp function in `help.el'.

  Show a list of all defined keys, and their definitions.
  We put that list in a buffer, and display the buffer.

So you can understand my shock upon finding out,

>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
LMI> jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

>> Why when in the article buffer C-h k { says
>> } runs the command w3m-next-image, which is an interactive compiled
>> but C-h b does not list it?

LMI> `C-h b' just lists the keys in the current mode(s) of the buffer.  It
LMI> doesn't list the keys that are bound due to text properties and
LMI> overlays.  It probably should, and that's an Emacs bug.

OK, I'll hereby report it.

bug#8414: describe-bindings does not list text properties and overlay bindings!

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

jidanni@jidanni.org writes:

> Since back in the 1980's I've depended on C-h b to tell me what all the
> keys are currently bound to in the buffer I'm in.
>
> I even printed them out on paper and studied them all.
>
>   C-h b runs the command describe-bindings, which is an interactive
>   compiled Lisp function in `help.el'.
>
>   Show a list of all defined keys, and their definitions.
>   We put that list in a buffer, and display the buffer.

(I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
attention yet.)

I had a peek at this now -- I hit `C-h b' on text that has a `keymap'
property, and it looks like it's been fixed in the intervening years:

`keymap' Property Bindings:
key             binding
---             -------

TAB		shr-next-link
RET		eww-follow-link
ESC		Prefix Command
+		image-increase-size
-		image-decrease-size

So I'm closing this bug report.  If you're still seeing this, please
reopen.

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