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diff --git a/doc/emacs/help.texi b/doc/emacs/help.texi index e2f9f8a8c86..d60310456ff 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/help.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/help.texi @@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ Display a list of commands whose names match @var{topics} Display all active key bindings; minor mode bindings first, then those of the major mode, then global bindings (@code{describe-bindings}). @xref{Misc Help}. +@item C-h C-q +Toggle display of a window showing popular commands and their key +bindings. @xref{Misc Help}. @item C-h c @var{key} Show the name of the command that the key sequence @var{key} is bound to (@code{describe-key-briefly}). Here @kbd{c} stands for @@ -257,6 +260,11 @@ by these buttons, Emacs provides the @code{button-describe} and @code{widget-describe} commands, that should be run with point over the button. +@anchor{which-key} +@kbd{M-x which-key} is a global minor mode which helps in discovering + keymaps. It displays keybindings following your currently entered + incomplete command (prefix), in a popup. + @node Name Help @section Help by Command or Variable Name @@ -302,6 +310,13 @@ name is defined as a Lisp function. Type @kbd{C-g} to cancel the @kbd{C-h f} command if you don't really want to view the documentation. + The function's documentation displayed by @code{describe-function} +includes more than just the documentation string and the signature of +the function. It also shows auxiliary information such as its type, the +file where it was defined, whether it has been declared obsolete, and +yet further information is often reachable by clicking or typing +@key{RET} on emphasized parts of the text. + @vindex help-enable-symbol-autoload If you request help for an autoloaded function whose @code{autoload} form (@pxref{Autoload,,, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}) @@ -710,6 +725,18 @@ displays the contents of the syntax table, with explanations of each character's syntax (@pxref{Syntax Tables,, Syntax Tables, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}). +@kindex C-h C-q +@findex help-quick-toggle +@findex help-quick +@cindex cheat sheet of popular Emacs commands + @kbd{C-h C-q} (@code{help-quick-toggle}) toggles on and off the +display of a buffer showing the most popular Emacs commands and their +respective key bindings (a.k.a.@: ``cheat sheet''). The contents of +that buffer are created by the command @code{help-quick}. Each key +binding shown in this buffer is a button: click on it with +@kbd{mouse-1} or @kbd{mouse-2} to show the documentation of the +command bound to that key sequence. + @findex describe-prefix-bindings You can get a list of subcommands for a particular prefix key by typing @kbd{C-h}, @kbd{?}, or @key{F1} |