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I recently came across these two keybindings in someone else's config and haven't seen them before. I have a US qwerty keyboard, a Kinesis Freestyle Pro. I know where the control, C, key is, and I see a Menu key in the left auxilliary cluster of my keyboard, but when I ask Emacs, C-h k, to describe C-menu it says: <C-linefeed> is undefined. So the Menu key produces is linefeed? And, I don't know where the <next> key is, I can only assume it is the media next key?

Even better, how would I ask Emacs for these values? I know about C-h k, describe-key, but is there a way, something like C-x 8 return that would show me all the keys I could use including odd ones like?

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Probably depends on your keyboard. I have a typical US PC keyboard. I don't know whether I have a <menu> key (for C-<menu>). But the <next> key is the key labeled Page Down.

To see how Emacs calls any given keyboard key, use C-h k. For example, if I use C-h k and hit the key labeled Page Down, Emacs describes what it calls key <next>.

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    Many keyboards have a <menu> key to the immediate left of the right control key - or thereabouts...
    – NickD
    Jan 16, 2020 at 23:24
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    @NickD: As does my keyboard. But Emacs calls it <apps>. Is that the Menu key that OP meant? Maybe, but OP said that Emacs calls it <menu>. Whatever it is, C-h k should say (1) whether Emacs sees that key and (2) what Emacs calls it.
    – Drew
    Jan 16, 2020 at 23:37
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    When I do C-h k on that key on my keyboard, my emacs says that it is the <menu> button. Keyboard stuff is black magic.
    – NickD
    Jan 16, 2020 at 23:58

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