Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic(a)srce.hr&gt; writes: You might even say that binding keys to anonymous functions is ridiculous, but if someone does it in some lisp code, and some else tries to get help on the key, they should get helpful help. If using `prin1' will make the help message better, why not change it? (Certainly, once I find out about that variable, I'll have some idea what it is. I tend to rely on the info files for documentation, so if the variable isn't mentioned in those, I'm not likely to find it. My second option is to browse through Emacs lisp files. I haven't done anything approaching a thorough search, but I haven't found the variable in any of those, either. I guess I'll have to start reading the c source code, like you said...8-|) I'm not sure what you mean by "correct". As far as I can tell, the behavior I see agrees with the documentation, so it is "correct". (Only as far as I can tell, though: does some info file actually say what happens in a keymap if shifted keys are undefined?) On the other hand, I think it would be better if one could actually define keymaps in which "a" does something and "A" does not. (For example, one might want to do this in dired mode. For another example, when typing TeX documents, one might want a keymap for typing Greek letters and other symbols, so hitting `g will insert "\gamma", `G will insert "\Gamma", `a will insert "\alpha", and `A will beep, because there is no "\Alpha" in TeX. I'd much rather have it beep than insert "\alpha".) The behavior now may be correct, but that doesn't mean it can't be improved. (I can think of several options: for example, defining a key to be 'undefined could override the value of retry-undefined-key-binding-unshifted, or the value of this variable could be "local" to each keymap. As it stands, I still can't tell how to use this variable in any way that's helpful rather than annoying (considering things like SHFT-SPC, etc.).) -- John H. Palmieri e-mail: palmieri.2(a)nd.edu 205 Computing/Math Bldg. URL:http://www.nd.edu/~jpalmier/ University of Notre Dame (219) 631-8846 Notre Dame, IN 46556