From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to get current keymap Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 08:09:05 -0700 Message-ID: References: <878wqtcqt6.fsf@emacs.Arch.net> <003b01c95837$ee8b1e30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1228663685 15483 80.91.229.12 (7 Dec 2008 15:28:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2008 15:28:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 16:29:09 2008 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 4.50) id 1L9LZE-0000Fj-3c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:29:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44555 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9LY2-0007fR-Uf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:27:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9LGq-0005RJ-UG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:10:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L9LGo-0005Ql-BJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:10:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60127 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L9LGn-0005Qa-0Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:10:05 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:35492 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9LGm-0007Mp-Co for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:10:04 -0500 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L9LGk-0007Ji-T5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:10:02 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:10:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (Macintosh/20081105) In-Reply-To: <003b01c95837$ee8b1e30$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:60420 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> I used (concat (symbol-name major-mode) "-map") to get >> current keymap, but it failed for LaTeX mode. Are there >> other methode to get current keymap. > > If I enter a buffer, do `M-x latex-mode', > then M-: (concat (symbol-name major-mode) "-map") > it returns "latex-mode-map". What did you want? > > That's the name of a symbol whose value is the latex mode keymap. If you want > the keymap itself, then you want this: > > (symbol-value ; Value of > (intern ; Symbol whose name is > (concat (symbol-name major-mode) "-map"))) > > However, (current-local-map) gives you the same thing, and it works regardless > of the name of the symbol. > > (eq (symbol-value > (intern > (concat (symbol-name major-mode) "-map"))) > (current-local-map)) > > => t A different way to find the symbol, instead of relying on its name: (when (current-local-map) (let ((result nil)) (mapatoms (function (lambda (symbol) (when (and (boundp symbol) (eq (symbol-value symbol) (current-local-map))) (push symbol result))))) result)) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA