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


From: Sivaram Neelakantan
Subject: Re: Why is M-; not showing up in <lang-mode> C-h m help?
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 00:08:04 +0530
User-agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt)

On Wed, Oct 30 2013,Michael Heerdegen wrote:


[snipped 11 lines]

> 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?


 sivaram
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