Function: quail-show-keyboard-layout

quail-show-keyboard-layout is an autoloaded, interactive and byte-compiled function defined in quail.el.gz.

Signature

(quail-show-keyboard-layout &optional KEYBOARD-TYPE)

Documentation

Show the physical layout of the keyboard type KEYBOARD-TYPE.

The variable quail-keyboard-layout-type holds the currently selected keyboard type.

Key Bindings

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/international/quail.el.gz
;;;###autoload
(defun quail-show-keyboard-layout (&optional keyboard-type)
  "Show the physical layout of the keyboard type KEYBOARD-TYPE.

The variable `quail-keyboard-layout-type' holds the currently selected
keyboard type."
  (interactive
   (list (completing-read (format-prompt "Keyboard type" "current choice")
			  quail-keyboard-layout-alist
			  nil t)))
  (or (and keyboard-type (> (length keyboard-type) 0))
      (setq keyboard-type quail-keyboard-layout-type))
  (let ((layout (assoc keyboard-type quail-keyboard-layout-alist)))
    (or layout
	(error "Unknown keyboard type: %s" keyboard-type))
    (with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Help*"
      (with-current-buffer standard-output
	(insert "Keyboard layout (keyboard type: "
		keyboard-type
		")\n")
	(quail-insert-kbd-layout (cdr layout))))))