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From: kjones@talos.uucp (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: can a command know its invoking key sequence?
Message-ID: <1989Nov16.143623.11606@talos.uucp>
Date: 16 Nov 89 14:36:23 GMT
References: <8911151740.AA16000@hummingbird.LCS.MIT.EDU>
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mic@THEORY.LCS.MIT.EDU writes:
 > If a command is bound to several different key sequences, is there a way
 > for it to know which way it was called?

Try using (this-command-keys).

C-h f this-command-keys yields

   this-command-keys:
   Return string of the keystrokes that invoked this command.

Note that this string includes the keys used to provide the prefix
argument, if any.