Re: What do these entries in 'show-commands' mean?

[Thomas Dickey]

----- Original Message -----
| From: "Chris Green" <cl@isbd.net>
| To: "Vile mailing list" <vile@nongnu.org>
| Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2023 5:05:22 AM
| Subject: What do these entries in 'show-commands' mean?

| In the 'show-commands' output there are entries like the following:-
| 
| "edit-file"                     ^X-e
|  or    "E"
|  or    "e"
|  or    "find-file"
|  ( bring given (or under-cursor) file or existing buffer into window )
| 
| I know that CTRL-X plus e opens the file under the cursor for editing,
| but what do the other entries mean?  Ah, I think I understand,
| "edit-file", "E", "e" and "find-file" are effectively 'synonymns' for
| the same action (they can be entered at the : prompt).  ^X-e invokes
| that command from command mode.
| 
| 
| Is there an easy way to list all the single character command-mode keys?

there's no single command that would do this, but since the display is generated
(consistent format), one could write a script to format it differently.

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