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Subject: can a command know its invoking key sequence?
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Date: 15 Nov 89 17:40:01 GMT
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This is a help request.

If a command is bound to several different key sequences, is there a way
for it to know which way it was called?  The closest thing I've found is to
parse over the last hundred keystrokes reported by (recent-keys), saving
the last valid key sequence (there are pathological examples showing that
this method cannot always work correctly).  I am hoping for a more
efficient and correct solution.

---- Mic Grigni (on vacation for a day after STOC submissions)

PS: I know of course that commands shouldn't generally depend on their
    calling keystroke, but I think I have a semi-valid use here.  I want a 
    function that will auto-detect and load definitions for various 
    different kinds of keyboards, where emacs doesn't know what kind of
    keyboard you have until you hit a function key (TERM doesn't tell you).