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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is M-; not showing up in <lang-mode> C-h m help?
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 13:00:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878uxb7yut.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8761sgdn59.fsf@gmail.com

Sivaram Neelakantan <nsivaram.net@gmail.com> writes:

> I just noticed that M-; (comment-dwim) does not show in C-h m for the
> language/source code one is writing the script for.  Why is that?  In
> sh-mode,python mode it's not there at all.  Given that
> commenting/uncommenting is fairly common task in source editing,
> shouldn't the key map be part of the mode help too?  
>
> It does show up under C-h k but that's irrelevant to a new user of a
> language-mode.

The binding is not mode specific, it's defined in the `global-map'.
With other words, there are no different `comment-dwim' commands for
every major mode, there is only one general `comment-dwim' working for
all correctly defined major modes.

C-h m describes only mode specific bindings; that's why the binding
doesn't show up there.


Regards,

Michael.




  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-30 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-29 17:04 Why is M-; not showing up in <lang-mode> C-h m help? Sivaram Neelakantan
2013-10-30 12:00 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
2013-10-30 18:38   ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2013-10-30 21:17     ` Kai Großjohann
2013-10-30 21:39 ` Jambunathan K
2013-10-30 22:14   ` Drew Adams

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