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Greg Novak <novak@dionysus.ucolick.org> writes:

> I also did "apropos-command key" looking for a command where I can hit
> a key and have emacs tell me the exact text that should go into the
> first argument to local-set-key in order to rebind the key.  Much like
> describe-key, but telling me how to rebind it, not what the current
> current binding happens to be.

You can use the output from `describe-key' (C-h k) in the `kbd' macro.
E.g.

       (global-set-key (kbd "<S-tab>") 'tetris)