Wilfred
Can `helpful-key` show which key, key combo, or key sequence was pressed?
I really like the fact that describe-key says what key I pressed in emacs's kbd syntax
<next> runs the command scroll-up-command...
Whereas helpful-key does not
scroll-up-command is an interactive and natively compiled function...
This is sometimes very useful for identifying the kbd code for non-standard keys. For example, it took me a while to figure out that <next> is the kbd sequence for the "Page Down" key.
I'd appreciate if you can add this snippet into the helpful-key buffer. Please let me know if that's already possible. Thanks!
Not the author, and it's not quite what you're asking for (in that it doesn't tell you which specific keybinding you asked about), but helpful-key does list all of the bindings to the command and the keymaps tthose bindings appear in, including <next> in global-map in the case of "Page Down".
In my case, it's the third section, after Signature and Documentation.
Hopefully this helps.
@treed Thanks. Sometimes this is enough but not always. For example, it is quite difficult to figure out that Ctrl + ` sends out C-@ in terminal emacs. If you never knew this and reads through the keymaps, you might be scratching your head why C-` is not in any of the keymaps listed.