Given an emacs mode, how to find its keymap name?

Question

What I do is C-u M-x apro-var RET isearch mode-map RET if I want to find out the name of the keymap for the isearch mode.

Is there other ways?

Answer 1

Sure, look at the source code:

M-x find-library RET isearch RET 
C-s mode-map

This is probably more reliable because people may not name their keymaps as you might hope, and some modes have more than one keymap (resulting in naming that your search may not find). A good example of needing to look at the code is 'viper-mode which has several different keymaps which are active under different situations.

Note: if you don't know the library name, replace find-library with find-function.