where which-key really excels is when you're already halfway through a complicated series of keyboard shortcuts and can't remember the next sequence. you pause

where which-key really excels is when you're already halfway through a complicated series of keyboard shortcuts and can't remember the next sequence. you pause, and the menu pops up to remind you using describe bindings you have to ctrl-g out of your half entered command, run describe bindings, search for what you wanted to do (without context -- which-key has the context of your half built command and only shows relevant commands, but describe-bindings just shows everything), make note of it, dismiss the documentation buffer, and then repeat the whole command again to try again much easier to have which-key pop up and remind you of how to continue while you're still in the middle of it, and go away on its own when you continue if you're really proficient you won't even have to turn it off because it only appears when you pause, so you'll go so fast you never see it which-key is not a replacement for describe-bindings, it's a contextual tool to surface that information automatically when it's needed and to dismiss it or not display it when it's not