GNU Emacs Manual - Help Summary

Help Summary

Here is a summary of the defined help commands.

C-h a regexp RET

Display list of commands whose names match regexp (command-apropos ).

C-h b

Display a table of all key bindings in effect now, in this order: minor mode bindings, major mode bindings, and 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 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 Emacs manual is available on-line in Info.

C-h k key

Display 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

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

C-h p

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

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 Emacs 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 C-f function RET

Enter Info and go to the node documenting the Emacs function function (info-goto-emacs-command-node ).

C-h C-k key

Enter Info and go to the node where the key sequence key is documented (info-goto-emacs-key-command-node ).

C-h C-c

Display the copying conditions for GNU Emacs.

C-h C-d

Display information about getting new versions of GNU Emacs.

C-h C-p

Display information about the GNU Project.