From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: The new keymap functions Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:05:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87zgq8sfw3.fsf@gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="36727"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 05:07:52 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mmpl9-0009Ps-Uj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2021 05:07:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57520 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mmpl8-00083C-KA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:07:50 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:51886) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mmpjF-0005aT-14 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:05:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [2001:470:142:3::e] (port=60044 helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mmpjE-0007kK-Me; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:05:52 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:to:From: mime-version; bh=5qJsIIsDiW7OSB03h1I9Q/rzWhtEQ+/Fu4X1uFsMSSI=; b=RvpBY7zuk79g PMuXZzF/AD1/JjZaYHsSmgaPAlf2SclfGxIemdZpRABQMg9CunGxonMJFRSJry1ntFk032J20+MUT Si0uXIXJ9JwN3aEa3GKJIxS9RW1F8GDAMm0LjoGZzKNkTcvNYy8xVucg9C43LCOUS6P2lPwNFZx5N h7GiTBBeO/JbpKobKMYMlKg4OwD2UpdVfown7wKWY3T2SL2+6EqeUCDl2qHr/s83vMCzhRmlpmkzI CdhS2ln8kvCrqGdKTqcXFSQR6WiZjqNMV3R89y81Zl28bldGV3y/DpsxQtrBUX8bjw9WTddj0Jp+Q plb75vQyQkY409/thwDOSQ==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mmpjE-0007gc-KG; Mon, 15 Nov 2021 23:05:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 14 Nov 2021 23:52:15 -0500) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:279530 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I wrote: > > keymap-set > > keymap-local-set > > keymap-global-set > > keymap-local-unset > > keymap-global-unset > > keymap-lookup > How about replacing `keymap' with `key'? After all, they don't set or > unset (the binding of) a keymap, they set or unset a single key? More correctly, they operate on the binding of a key sequence, not a single key. But my suggestion remains the same. We can shorten "key sequence" to "key" in a context like this. The word "map" doesn't seem to contribute anything. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)