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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <p...@informatimago.com>
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
Subject: Re: does emacs know (xev-like) when a modifier key is pressed?
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 16:43:05 +0200
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Joe Corneli <holtzerman...@gmail.com> writes:

> I'd like to create a little mode-line "lighter" that will show which
> combination of modifier keys is pressed.  (My keyboard has a sticky
> key problem, so this would help me diagnose how to unjam the keys.)
> Does Emacs know which modifiers are "on" at a given moment?

M-x apropos RET modifier RET


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