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From: obnoxio@BOSCO.BERKELEY.EDU (Obnoxious Math Grad Student)
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Subject: Re: GNUemacs keymaps
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Date: Wed, 19-Aug-87 04:30:51 EDT
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In article <1317@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, langz@E40-334-1 (Lang Zerner) writes:
>Hi there!  I'm a novice GNU hacker, and I'm trying to find a simple way to
>browse keymaps.  The thought came to me of a keymap browser/editor in the
>tradition of list-buffers and dired.

Yes, that would be nice.  Maybe you should volunteer for this particular
project, and so end up climbing out of the novice stage?

>				       The thought then came to me that, as
>interesting as such a project might be, I'd rather not take it on

Never mind.

>								   if there's
>some other simple way to examine a keymap in human readble form.

That's easy: just use eval-last-sexp.  If you want it to be pretty, try:

(defun insert-keymap (keymap)
  "Display the contents of KEYMAP."
  (interactive "xkeymap: ")
  (insert (substitute-command-keys (concat "\\{" (symbol-name keymap) "}"))))

>								   I can just
>use define-key to do any actual editing.

Or in the eval-last-sexp context mentioned above, a simple (setq keymap '(...))
will do the trick.

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720