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Am 19.03.2010 15:58, schrieb Reinout van Rees:
> On 03/19/2010 03:34 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote:
>> On Mar 19, 2010, at 11:07 AM, Reinout van Rees wrote:
>>
>>> ctrl-h *is* sadly the logical key for some help-related function.  Would
>>> "ctrl-c h" be an alternative?
>>
>> Hi Reinout.  Is that defined in an Emacs Lisp standard somewhere?  I'm having
>> a hard time finding /any/ other mode where C-c C-h is bound to anything
>> (mail-mode and shell-mode are two others I've checked).
> 
> Hm. It is apparently not as clear-cut as I always took it to be.  Emacs' 
> info (for instance 
> http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/chemnet/use/info/emacs/emacs_11.html ):
> 
>    C-h or F1 means "help" in various other contexts as well. For
>    example, in query-replace, it describes the options available.
>    After a prefix key, it displays a list of the alternatives that
>    can follow the prefix key. (A few prefix keys don't support this
>    because they define other meanings for C-h.)
> 
> So it *is* apparently OK to use ctrl-h in other meanings!
> 
> But ctrl-c ctrl-h seems to work in every mode I just tested it on: it 
> gives a nice overview of possible keys.
> 
> I know most basic keybindings, but the particulars of all those major 
> modes... That's what ctrl-c ctrl-h is for.

FWIW, I agree.  Binding <prefix> C-h is almost as ugly as binding
<prefix> C-g.

C-c C-e sounds nice.

Georg

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