Re: Why is M-; not showing up in <lang-mode> C-h m help?

[Kai Großjohann]

Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30 2013,Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> 
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>> 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.
>>
> 
> well, wouldn't a reasonable subset of the global keymap be made part of
> the local mode?  Someone starting off on Emacs wouldn't know at all,
> would they?

On the one hand, yes.  On the other hand, you don't want to show <right>
and <left> in the output of C-h m.  So it's hard to find the right boundary.

Kai