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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 20528@debbugs.gnu.org, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: bug#20528: 25.0.50; `keymap' property to work for symbol-value, not just symbol-function
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 13:51:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvr3qrot8v.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b90d00b-d8b9-463e-a6e1-e60f0f391a3e@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Fri, 8 May 2015 08:25:58 -0700 (PDT)")

> Why can't you dereference the function symbol when assigning the
> property? ;-)

When the function symbol is used, often the reason is so that it works
even if the keymap is not yet defined (e.g. the keymap is autoloaded).

> But the real reason is that I want to have `C-u C-x =' show the
> variable name, not the raw keymap value (after [Show]).  In my

Would be nice, indeed.  But I'm not sure it's worth the hassle.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-08 17:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-07 20:14 bug#20528: 25.0.50; `keymap' property to work for symbol-value, not just symbol-function Drew Adams
2015-05-08  6:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2015-05-08 15:25   ` Drew Adams
2015-05-08 15:33     ` Andreas Schwab
2015-05-08 17:51     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-09-04  7:22       ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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