Describe current keymap

[Will]

Hi,

I am working over a ssh console/X-Window with a Linux server from
several clients with different keyboards and with different OS's.
Therefore, special characters are located on varying keys. As I am
always working with the remote emacs clients I wonder whether Emacs
knows about this issues and can describe the current keyboard layout,
e.g. similar to <quail-show-keyboard-layout> (not working).

Thanks in advance,

Will

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.11.2008 um 13:48 schrieb Will:

> As I am always working with the remote emacs clients I wonder
> whether Emacs knows about this issues and can describe the current
> keyboard layout, e.g. similar to <quail-show-keyboard-layout> (not
> working).

No, it can't. It either receives key events from X or ANSI codes from
a terminal (emulation) or whatever another windowing system which
client it is sends.

Can't you teach your remote systems to show a virtual keyboard on
your screen?

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[Drew Adams]

> > As I am always working with the remote emacs clients I wonder
> > whether Emacs knows about this issues and can describe the current
> > keyboard layout, e.g. similar to <quail-show-keyboard-layout> (not
> > working).
>

> No, it can't. It either receives key events from X or ANSI
> codes from a terminal (emulation) or whatever another windowing
> system which client it is sends.

Peter answered the question you meant to ask.

Wrt your subject line, FWIW, `describe-keymap' in `help-fns+.el' will describe a
keymap, including the current one. But that won't help with physical keyboard
key locations.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/help-fns%2b.el
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HelpPlus