8.1 Help Summary

Here is a summary of the defined help commands.

C-h a regexp RET

Display a list of functions and variables whose names match regexp (hyper-apropos).

C-h A regexp

Show all commands whose names contain matches for regexp (command-apropos).

C-h b

Display a table of all key bindings currently in effect, with local bindings of the current major mode first, followed by all global bindings (describe-bindings).

C-h c key

Print the name of the command that key runs (describe-key-briefly). Here c stands for ‘character’. For more extensive information on key, use C-h k.

C-h d function RET

C-h f function RET

Display documentation on the Lisp function named function (describe-function). Since commands are Lisp functions, a command name may be used.

C-h i

Run Info, the program for browsing documentation files (info). The complete SXEmacs manual is available online in Info.

C-h k key

Display the name and documentation of the command that key runs (describe-key).

C-h l

Display a description of the last 100 characters you typed (view-lossage).

C-h m

Display documentation of the current major mode (describe-mode).

C-h n

C-h C-n

Display documentation of SXEmacs changes, most recent first (view-emacs-news).

C-h p

Find packages by topic keyword (finder-by-keyword).

C-h C-p

Display a table of all mouse bindings currently in effect now, with local bindings of the current major mode first, followed by all global bindings (describe-pointer).

C-h s

Display current contents of the syntax table, plus an explanation of what they mean (describe-syntax). See Syntax.

C-h t

Enter the SXEmacs interactive tutorial (help-with-tutorial).

C-h v var RET

Display the documentation of the Lisp variable var (describe-variable).

C-h w command RET

Print which keys run the command named command (where-is).

C-h B RET

Display info on how to deal with Beta versions of SXEmacs (describe-beta).

C-h C group RET

Select customization buffer for group (customize).

C-h F RET

View the local copy of the SXEmacs FAQ (sxemacs-local-faq).

C-h C-i file RET

Read Info file file with Info browser (Info-query).

C-h C-c command RET

Look up an Emacs command command in the Emacs manual in the Info system (Info-goto-emacs-command-node).

C-h C-f function RET

Look up an Emacs Lisp function function in the Elisp manual in the Info system (Info-elisp-ref).