Mnemonic Menu with Which-Key
The more features you add to Emacs, the more keybindings and commands you have at your fingertips. To manage all this power, Spacemacs uses which-key to organise these keybindings and commands into groups.
Commands are grouped by their mnemonic character, for example
| Which-key nemonic menu | |
|---|---|
a - applications |
N - navigation |
B - global buffers |
n - narrow/numbers |
b - buffers |
p - projects |
C - capture/colors |
q - quit |
c - compile/comments |
r - registers/rings/resume |
e - errors |
s - search/symbol |
f - files |
S - spelling |
g - git/version control |
T - UI toggles/themes |
h - help |
t - toggles |
i - insertion |
w - windows |
j - jump/join/split |
x - text |
k - lisp |
z - zoom |
l - layouts-transient-state |
You can still use all the keybindings that come with Emacs packages as well as type in command names using M-x command-name too, or SPC SPC command-name, if you know the the command-name you are looking for.
Navigating which-key menus
| Spacemacs | Emacs | Description |
|---|---|---|
SPC |
M-m |
main menu |
Which-key menu paging / help
You can navigate around the which-key menu system using commands under C-h. This allows you to go back to a parent menu if you selected the wrong sub-menu.
Depending on the number of items on a particular menu and the size of your Spacemacs frame, the menu may be spanned over several pages of menu. So pressing C-h n will take you to the next page of the menu, while C-h p will take you to the previous menu page.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
C-h |
Paging / help menu |
n |
next page in menu |
p |
previous page in menu |
u |
up to parent menu |
h |
help |
a |
abort |
