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Re: Getting the command that a certain menu function runs?


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: Getting the command that a certain menu function runs?
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:13:49 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)

On Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:54:39 -0700 Tyler Spivey <tspivey@nospampcdesk.net> 
wrote: 

TS> Hello. I would like to know how to find the function that is executed by
TS> a menu command on the menubar. describe-key isn't working for me, since
TS> I don't use a mouse, and f10/m-` just describes the function for opening
TS> the menubar. For example, in gnus, I would like to find the M-x
TS> equivalent of Post>Send a message (mail or news).

The programmer's shortcut:

# adjust for your particular packages
grep -C 20 easy-menu-define ~/gnus/gnus/lisp/*.el

...or just go in the package and do `M-x occur' for easy-menu-define.

Not ideal, sure, but it will tell you exactly what's been installed.

HTH
Ted


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