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I recently came across a pair of lesser known (for me) help keybindings: C-h c and C-h w. I ran through the tutorial on a flight because I haven't yet and I've been meaning to, and that's where I found C-h c which invokes describe-key-briefly. It's basically a baby version of C-h k, describe-key. Instead of popping up another window to tell you about the keystroke, it just puts a short little description in the minibuffer. I think it'll be pretty useful if I can remember to use it to keep from messing up my own window config.

Kind of going the other direction, C-h w invokes where-is which prompts you for an interactive function and tells you what, if any, keybinding it's attached to. This is pretty useful when I know the name of the command I want to do, but I'm not sure what the keybinding is for it. I ran across that situation with a couple magit commands the other day and I was able to work backwards to figure out the keybindings. Previously, I'd been doing C-h m or C-h b to get a list of keybindings and then C-sing through that list for the name of the command.

Of course, both of these (and more) are immediately available through C-h C-h, and they've been there for the entire time that I've been an Emacs user.