Re: identifying meta-key bound functions from last-command-char?

[Stefan Monnier]

> as i see it, the purpose is not too obscure or unusual: deliberately
> identifying a key binding for user-entered keys from within a handler
> that's intervening in the command loop, eg, on pre-command-hook,
> overlay modification-hooks, or something like that.  last-command-char
> / last-command-event is the only data structure i found for getting
> the input, and the only details about using that are very brief, in
> 21.4, _Information from the Command Loop_.

So maybe you'd rather use (key-binding (this-command-keys-vector)) so it
also works for commands bound to multi-key sequences.


        Stefan