Marcin Borkowski (mbork) has an interesting post on the describe-personal-keybindings command. The idea is that the command lists the keybindings that you have set in your configuration. It’s convenient, mbork says, for checking that new Emacs releases haven’t stolen one of your bindings. It’s also interesting to see what bindings you’ve added and what, if anything, they’ve replaced.
But there’s a catch. In order for a personal keybinding to show up, it must have been set with the bind-key macro. That’s a problem for those of us who are long term users. Those who use use-package exclusively have no problem since the :bind command uses bind-key automatically but bindings set with, say, define-key will not appear in the describe-personal-keybindings output.
That’s inspired mbork to refactor his init.el to use use-pacjkage and for stand-alone bindings, the bind-key macro.
The minions are insisting that I mention what they consider the best part of mbork’s post. That, of course, concerned dark mode. Mbork begins his post by mentioning a Web app that provides a Web based cheat sheet of Emacs commands. Mbork says it’s a cool command but not for him because
if I were to create something like that, it would run in Emacs and not in the browser, it would definitely mention transpose-.* commands, and it would never be dark-mode-only;-).
The minions haven’t been causing much trouble lately so I thought it only fair to indulge their desire to get mbork’s dislike of dark mode on the record.