From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: sort-first arg to map-keymap Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:44:22 -0500 Message-ID: <87acbcjsvq.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143500129 1581 80.91.229.2 (27 Mar 2006 22:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:55:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 28 00:55:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FO0cL-00026c-Lk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:55:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FO0cL-0000n6-9n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 17:55:21 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNlSk-0004rk-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:44:27 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FNlSi-0004pk-6E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:44:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FNlSh-0004pZ-Uv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:44:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.25] (helo=tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FNlU9-0007HK-CA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:45:53 -0500 Original-Received: from alfajor ([70.55.143.15]) by tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060327064423.HTBJ18394.tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net@alfajor>; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:44:23 -0500 Original-Received: by alfajor (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D5D72D734A; Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:44:22 -0500 (EST) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52124 Archived-At: Does anyone know why we have the `sort-first' arg to map-keymap? It doesn't seem to be used anywhere and its implementation is rather odd (its handling is delegated from C to Lisp's map-keymap-internal which them calls back C's map-keymap function, with an apparent-only circular dependency). As best as I can tell, it comes from emacs-lisp/lucid.el which is a brittle package which tries to provide very coarse XEmacs compatibility; but XEmacs's `map-keymap' function doesn't behave like ours anyway (it doesn't apply the function to the keymap's parents, for one thing), and lucid.el has never been very highly used, so it seems better to keep its brittle code in lucid.el than to move it to subr.el. Stefan