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U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100713 Lightning/1.0b1 Thunderbird/3.0.6 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:53:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:43202 Archived-At: On 01/07/11 17:09, Andreas Schwab wrote: > writes: > >> however, there's no explanation of what t in `[t]' can be. > > It is the symbol `t'. > >> Also, the phrase, 'default binding', implies there's a non-default >> binding. > > The term `default binding' is explained in the same paragraph. > Ah, so when it says: If KEY is `[t]', this sets the default binding in KEYMAP. it means: If the call to define-key is of the form: (define-key KEYMAP [T] BINDING) then this sets the default binding in KEYMAP to BINDING. which, I guess means when the KEY argument is *not* in the form of a vector, then it sets the non-default binding. OOPS, wait, that doesn't make sense to me eithe because a default and non-default bindings would mean pressing KEY or the event represented by KEY has at least 2 meansing. So, the paragraph is still unclear to me. What am I missing? -Larry