If I type C-h m emacs lists a very few keystokes/commands from lisp-
mode. However, the list is clearly far short of the actual key
bindings provided by lisp-mode.
AFAIK, only those few bindings are "provided" by Lisp mode. But that
doesn't
mean they are the only bindings available when you are in Lisp mode.
(Note, BTW, that Emacs-Lisp mode binds a few more keys.)
If I type C-h b I get a whole swack of key bindings,
You see the bindings that are available to you in Lisp mode.
many of which pertain only to lisp
Which, for instance?
In emacs -Q, for Emacs 23.1, C-h b shows these bindings for the
major mode (Lisp
mode):
DEL backward-delete-char-untabify
C-c C-z run-lisp
C-M-q indent-sexp
C-M-x lisp-eval-defun
and which, I suspect, are provided in lisp-mode.
These are just listed under "global bindings."
Which of those global bindings were you thinking are provided by
Lisp mode and
pertain only to Lisp? If you are thinking of things such as `C-M-d'
(`down-list'), then the answer is that such commands are generally
useful,
beyond Lisp.
Similarly, a command such as `beginning-of-defun' (`C-M-a'), is
useful in
multiple languages, in spite of its Lisp-sounding name. It in fact
changes its
behavior, depending on the current mode (current language).
See the Elisp manual, node List Motion.
If keys are listed by `C-h b' as global bindings, then they are in
the keymap
`global-map'. It's unlikely that the major mode (Lisp mode) added or
changed
`global-map' bindings.
How would I get a listing of the bindings provided by lisp-mode
alone?
What you saw at the beginning of `C-h b' under the heading of major-
mode
bindings, was just such a list. It is the same list you saw at the
top of what
`C-h m' displays.
Otherwise, you can do this:
C-h v lisp-mode-map
Or for a human-readable listing, download library help-fns+.el, load
it, and
then do this;
C-h M-k lisp-mode-map
But the list of keys is still the same. ;-)
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/help-fns%2b.el
I mention `C-h M-k' because it works for any keymap (that is bound
to a
variable) - it's not always the case that `C-h m' and `C-h b' give
you the info
you need. If you want the keys bound in a minibuffer map, for
instance, you
cannot use `C-h [mb]' to get that info. But you can use `C-h M-k
minibuffer-local-must-match-map' etc.
HTH