In this section we list some of the more general keymaps. Many of these exist when Emacs is first started, but some are loaded only when the respective feature is accessed.
There are many other, more specialized, maps than these; in particular those associated with major and minor modes. The minibuffer uses several keymaps (see Minibuffer Commands that Do Completion). For more details on keymaps, see Keymaps.
2C-mode-map
A sparse keymap for subcommands of the prefix C-x 6.
See Two-Column Editing in The GNU Emacs Manual.
abbrev-map
¶A sparse keymap for subcommands of the prefix C-x a.
See Defining Abbrevs in The GNU Emacs Manual.
button-buffer-map
A sparse keymap useful for buffers containing buffers.
You may want to use this as a parent keymap. See Buttons.
button-map
A sparse keymap used by buttons.
ctl-x-4-map
A sparse keymap for subcommands of the prefix C-x 4.
ctl-x-5-map
A sparse keymap for subcommands of the prefix C-x 5.
ctl-x-map
A full keymap for C-x commands.
ctl-x-r-map
¶A sparse keymap for subcommands of the prefix C-x r.
See Registers in The GNU Emacs Manual.
esc-map
A full keymap for ESC (or Meta) commands.
function-key-map
The parent keymap of all local-function-key-map
(q.v.) instances.
global-map
The full keymap containing default global key bindings.
Modes should not modify the Global map.
goto-map
A sparse keymap used for the M-g prefix key.
help-map
A sparse keymap for the keys following the help character C-h.
See Help Functions.
Helper-help-map
A full keymap used by the help utility package.
It has the same keymap in its value cell and in its function cell.
input-decode-map
The keymap for translating keypad and function keys.
If there are none, then it contains an empty sparse keymap.
See Keymaps for Translating Sequences of Events.
key-translation-map
A keymap for translating keys. This one overrides ordinary key
bindings, unlike local-function-key-map
. See Keymaps for Translating Sequences of Events.
kmacro-keymap
¶A sparse keymap for keys that follows the C-x C-k prefix search.
See Keyboard Macros in The GNU Emacs Manual.
local-function-key-map
The keymap for translating key sequences to preferred alternatives.
If there are none, then it contains an empty sparse keymap.
See Keymaps for Translating Sequences of Events.
menu-bar-edit-menu
menu-bar-options-menu
global-buffers-menu-map
menu-bar-tools-menu
menu-bar-help-menu
These keymaps display the main, top-level menus in the menu bar.
Some of them contain sub-menus. For example, the Edit menu contains
menu-bar-search-menu
, etc. See The Menu Bar.
minibuffer-inactive-mode-map
A full keymap used in the minibuffer when it is not active.
See Editing in the Minibuffer in The GNU Emacs Manual.
mode-line-coding-system-map
¶mode-line-input-method-map
mode-line-column-line-number-mode-map
These keymaps control various areas of the mode line.
See Mode Line Format.
mode-specific-map
The keymap for characters following C-c. Note, this is in the
global map. This map is not actually mode-specific: its name was chosen
to be informative in C-h b (display-bindings
),
where it describes the main use of the C-c prefix key.
A sparse keymap used for the S-mouse-1 key.
mule-keymap
The global keymap used for the C-x RET prefix key.
narrow-map
¶A sparse keymap for subcommands of the prefix C-x n.
prog-mode-map
The keymap used by Prog mode.
See Basic Major Modes.
query-replace-map
multi-query-replace-map
A sparse keymap used for responses in query-replace
and related
commands; also for y-or-n-p
and map-y-or-n-p
. The functions
that use this map do not support prefix keys; they look up one event at a
time. multi-query-replace-map
extends query-replace-map
for multi-buffer replacements. See query-replace-map.
search-map
A sparse keymap that provides global bindings for search-related commands.
special-mode-map
The keymap used by Special mode.
See Basic Major Modes.
tab-prefix-map
The global keymap used for the C-x t prefix key for tab-bar related commands.
See Tab Bars in The GNU Emacs Manual.
tab-bar-map
The keymap defining the contents of the tab bar.
See Tab Bars in The GNU Emacs Manual.
tool-bar-map
The keymap defining the contents of the tool bar.
See Tool bars.
universal-argument-map
¶A sparse keymap used while processing C-u.
See Prefix Command Arguments.
vc-prefix-map
The global keymap used for the C-x v prefix key.
x-alternatives-map
¶A sparse keymap used to map certain keys under graphical frames.
The function x-setup-function-keys
uses this.