From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How do you lookup keybindings of a command? Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 08:40:46 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <0f9fcbc1-89b6-478d-999e-cdb4cb651c9d@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291843375 6267 80.91.229.12 (8 Dec 2010 21:22:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 21:22:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 08 22:22:51 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQRTO-0005jU-Kh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:22:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60419 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQRDe-0005Rd-SH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:06:35 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!u36g2000prg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.180.85.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1278171647 21171 127.0.0.1 (3 Jul 2010 15:40:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2010 15:40:47 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u36g2000prg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.180.85.8; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.86 Safari/533.4, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:179471 comp.emacs:100153 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:76034 Archived-At: On Jul 2, 2:28=C2=A0am, Elena wrote: > Hello, > > how do you lookup keybindings of a command? That is, how do you find > out you can call `backward-word' by "C-b" (and maybe other keys)? am surprised that you didn't know this after seeing your elisp posts for a year or more? finding the key to a command or the command of a key is the most fundamental knowledge in emacs know how. Ctrl+h k describe-key Find the command name of a shortcut Ctrl+h f describe-function Find the shortcut of a command detail: =E2=80=A2 Tips on Long Term Emacs Productivity http://xahlee.org/emacs/effective_emacs.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84