Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Simon Josefsson <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:04:56 +0200
> 
> To make people learn the bindings, it could be useful if selecting
> stuff from menus left a message in the minibuffer explaining the key
> binding.

The menu itself shows the keybinding, if any, that invokes the same
command.  Isn't that good enough?  AFAIK, this is the accepted way of
showing keyboard equivalents of menu commands in other GUI
applications.

> I think something similar exists if you type a M-x command which is
> bound in the current mode?

Yes; see the suggest-key-binding variable.