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+ <h2 class="chapter">Keymaps</h2> <p>The command bindings of input events are recorded in data structures called <em>keymaps</em>. Each entry in a keymap associates (or <em>binds</em>) an individual event type, either to another keymap or to a command. When an event type is bound to a keymap, that keymap is used to look up the next input event; this continues until a command is found. The whole process is called <em>key lookup</em>. </p> <table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0"> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="key-sequences" accesskey="1">Key Sequences</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Key sequences as Lisp objects. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="keymap-basics" accesskey="2">Keymap Basics</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Basic concepts of keymaps. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="format-of-keymaps" accesskey="3">Format of Keymaps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">What a keymap looks like as a Lisp object. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="creating-keymaps" accesskey="4">Creating Keymaps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Functions to create and copy keymaps. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="inheritance-and-keymaps" accesskey="5">Inheritance and Keymaps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">How one keymap can inherit the bindings of another keymap. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="prefix-keys" accesskey="6">Prefix Keys</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Defining a key with a keymap as its definition. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="active-keymaps" accesskey="7">Active Keymaps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">How Emacs searches the active keymaps for a key binding. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="searching-keymaps" accesskey="8">Searching Keymaps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">A pseudo-Lisp summary of searching active maps. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="controlling-active-maps" accesskey="9">Controlling Active Maps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Each buffer has a local keymap to override the standard (global) bindings. A minor mode can also override them. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="key-lookup">Key Lookup</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Finding a key’s binding in one keymap. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="functions-for-key-lookup">Functions for Key Lookup</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">How to request key lookup. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="changing-key-bindings">Changing Key Bindings</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Redefining a key in a keymap. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="remapping-commands">Remapping Commands</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">A keymap can translate one command to another. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="translation-keymaps">Translation Keymaps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Keymaps for translating sequences of events. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="key-binding-commands">Key Binding Commands</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Interactive interfaces for redefining keys. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="scanning-keymaps">Scanning Keymaps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Looking through all keymaps, for printing help. </td>
+</tr> <tr>
+<td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="menu-keymaps">Menu Keymaps</a>
+</td>
+<td> </td>
+<td align="left" valign="top">Defining a menu as a keymap. </td>
+</tr> </table><div class="_attribution">
+ <p class="_attribution-p">
+ Copyright &copy; 1990-1996, 1998-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. <br>Licensed under the GNU GPL license.<br>
+ <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Keymaps.html" class="_attribution-link">https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Keymaps.html</a>
+ </p>
+</div>