Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!munnari!murtoa.cs.mu.oz.au!mimir!hugin!augean!sibyl!ian From: ian@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ (Ian Dall) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: see-chars for GNU Message-ID: <189@sibyl.eleceng.ua.OZ> Date: 10 May 89 11:54:06 GMT References: <4362@omepd.UUCP> <2122@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> Reply-To: ian@sibyl.OZ (Ian Dall) Organization: Engineering, Uni of Adelaide, Australia Lines: 21 In article tale@pawl.rpi.edu writes: ->In <4362@omepd.UUCP>, merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz) writes: ->RLS> Ever wonder what characters a function key sends out, or one of those ->RLS> other "unknown" keys like "scroll right"? ->In <2122@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu> consp04@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu -> (Daniel F. Boyd) writes: ->DFB> Press C-h l to run the command 'view-lossage' which shows ->DFB> you, in the buffer, a list of the last 100 or so characters ->DFB> entered. ->DFB> You reinvented the wheel. -> ->I disagree. Say I want to find out what F5 is on a Sun keyboard. ->Poking at F5 and then typing C-h l will certainly tell me what was ->typed, but it also will insert "28z" into my buffer after beeping at ->me because M-[ 2 is undefined. C-h k does the trick pretty much if you don't mind being told whether or not the key is bound to anything. -- Ian Dall life (n). A sexually transmitted disease which afflicts some people more severely than others.