Re: Newbie questions

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.12.2006 um 17:00 schrieb ocelot1970@gmail.com:

> 1) Is there a way to see what a keyboard shortcut is currently bound
> to? Before I write my own programs making my own, I want to make sure
> I'm not unbinding something really important.

C-h b

> 2) Is there a way to see a list of all functions that can possible be
> bound to keymappings, the list of files they appear in, and their
> descriptions?

Approximately C-h a TAB

Many functions of that list are not interactive, so they might fail  
to function.

> 3) Are there any key combos with meta and ctrl that are not allowed
> when creating my own key bindings? Any reason why I wouldn't use C-q,
> C-w, C-e, etc. just go through the keyboard and use what's not used  
> yet?

Those your window manager catches. C-q is used in GNU Emacs to escape  
things. For example it works hardly otherwise than via C-q TAB to add  
a TAB as TAB into a list of characters you are going to search for  ...

--
Greetings

  Pete

"Give a man a fish, and you've fed him for a day. Teach him to fish,  
and you've depleted the lake."