Excessive documentation for C-h k a

[David Kastrup]

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Type C-h k a, and you receive the help

a runs the command self-insert-command
   which is an interactive built-in function.
It is bound to Character set JISX0213-2, Character set Tibetan 2 column, 
Character set Indian 2 Column, Character set CNS11643-7 (Chinese traditional): 
ISO-IR-187, Character set CNS11643-6 (Chinese traditional): ISO-IR-186, 
Character set CNS11643-5 (Chinese traditional): ISO-IR-185, Character set 
CNS11643-4 (Chinese traditional): ISO-IR-184, Character set CNS11643-3 (Chinese 
traditional): ISO-IR-183, Character set Ethiopic characters, Character set 
Unicode subset (U+0100..U+24FF), Character set Unicode subset (U+E000+FFFF), 
Character set Unicode subset (U+2500..U+33FF), Character set Tibetan 1 column, 
Character set Indian glyph, Character set Indian IS 13194, Character set Arabic 
2-column, Character set Lao, Character set ASCII with right-to-left direction, 
Character set Arabic 1-column, Character set Arabic digit, Character set VISCII 
upper-case, Character set VISCII lower-case, Character set IPA, Character set 
SiSheng (PinYin/ZhuYin), Character set Big5 (Level-2) C940-FEFE, Character set 
Big5 (Level-1) A141-C67F, Character set JISX0213-1, Character set CNS11643-2 
(Chinese traditional): ISO-IR-172, Character set CNS11643-1 (Chinese 
traditional): ISO-IR-171, Character set JISX0212 (Japanese): ISO-IR-159, 
Character set KSC5601 (Korean): ISO-IR-149, Character set JISX0208.1983/1990 
(Japanese): ISO-IR-87, Character set GB2312: ISO-IR-58, Character set 
JISX0208.1978 (Japanese): ISO-IR-42, Character set RHP of Latin-8 (ISO 
8859-14): ISO-IR-199, Character set RHP of Latin-9 (ISO 8859-15): ISO-IR-203, 
Character set RHP of Latin-5 (ISO 8859-9): ISO-IR-148, Character set RHP of 
Cyrillic (ISO 8859-5): ISO-IR-144, Character set Japanese Roman 
(JISX0201.1976), Character set Japanese Katakana (JISX0201.1976), Character set 
RHP of Hebrew (ISO 8859-8): ISO-IR-138, Character set RHP of Arabic (ISO 
8859-6): ISO-IR-127, Character set RHP of Greek (ISO 8859-7): ISO-IR-126, 
Character set RHP of Thai (TIS620): ISO-IR-166, Character set RHP of Latin-4 
(ISO 8859-4): ISO-IR-110, Character set RHP of Latin-3 (ISO 8859-3): 
ISO-IR-109, Character set RHP of Latin-2 (ISO 8859-2): ISO-IR-101, Character 
set RHP of Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1): ISO-IR-100, ÿ, þ, ý, ü, û, ú, ù, ø, ÷, ö, õ, 
ô, ó, ò, ñ, ð, ï, î, í, ì, ë, ê, é, è, ç, æ, å, ä, ã, â, á, à, ß, Þ, Ý, Ü, Û, 
Ú, Ù, Ø, ×, Ö, Õ, Ô, Ó, Ò, Ñ, Ð, Ï, Î, Í, Ì, Ë, Ê, É, È, Ç, Æ, Å, Ä, Ã, Â, Á, 
À, ¿, ¾, ½, ¼, », º, ¹, ¸, ·, ¶, µ, ´, ³, ², ±, °, ¯, ®, ­, ¬, «, ª, ©, ¨, §, 
¦, ¥, ¤, £, ¢, ¡,  , ~, }, |, {, z, y, x, w, v, u, t, s, r, q, p, o, n, m, l, 
k, j, i, h, g, f, e, d, c, b, a, `, _, ^, ], \, [, Z, Y, X, W, V, U, T, S, R, 
Q, P, O, N, M, L, K, J, I, H, G, F, E, D, C, B, A, @, ?, >, =, <, ;, :, 9, 8, 
7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0, /, ., -, ,, +, *, ), (, ', &, %, $, #, ", !, SPC.
(self-insert-command N)

Insert the character you type.
Whichever character you type to run this command is inserted.

[back]

It is a bit excessive listing all keys that self-insert-command is
bound to.

In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.16 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.2.1)
 of 2004-02-29 on lola.goethe.zz
configured using `configure '--prefix=/usr/local/emacs-21' '--with-gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  auto-compression-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  iswitchb-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<down> SPC SPC SPC SPC SPC q j <up> q y y M-x g n u 
s <return> n <return> 3 <return> n E q q y <C-prior> 
<C-next> <C-prior> C-h k <C-prior> d d d d d <C-next> 
<C-next> <C-prior> <C-prior> <C-prior> <C-next> <C-next> 
<C-next> <C-prior> <C-prior> <C-prior> <C-prior> C-h 
k <C-right> C-h k <C-S-right> C-h k <S-right> C-h k 
<M-right> C-h k <C-S-right> C-h k <S-next> C-h k <M-next> 
C-h k <M-prior> C-h k <menu> C-h k þ C-M-v C-M-v C-a 
C-k C-h k a M-x r e p o t <backspace> r t - e <tab> 
<return>

Recent messages:
Expiring articles...done
No more unread newsgroups
Are you sure you want to quit reading news? (y or n) 
Wrote /home/dak/.newsrc
Saving /home/dak/.newsrc.eld...
Saving file /home/dak/.newsrc.eld...
Wrote /home/dak/.newsrc.eld
Saving /home/dak/.newsrc.eld...done
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  C-M-v to scroll the help.
Loading emacsbug...done

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum