From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-temporary-overlay-map seems poorly named
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:48:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4n61cgd1.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sitl3ene.fsf@gnu.org> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sun, 22 Dec 2013 08:36:37 +0800")
>>> This function, new in Emacs 24.4, seems to have nothing to do with
>>> overlays in the usual Emacs sense. So it's a bad name.
>>> How about renaming it to `set-transient-keymap'?
>> 'set-temporary-overriding-map', perhaps?
FWIW, I don't have any preference in this respect, so feel free to
change it after you agree on it.
> This might be confusing, since overriding-local-map takes precedence
> over the temporary map.
AFAIK it doesn't.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-22 10:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-21 5:45 set-temporary-overlay-map seems poorly named Chong Yidong
2013-12-21 5:58 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-22 14:19 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-22 16:50 ` Jambunathan K
2013-12-21 8:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-22 0:36 ` Chong Yidong
2013-12-22 8:38 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2013-12-22 10:48 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-12-22 13:43 ` Chong Yidong
2013-12-23 1:27 ` Stefan Monnier
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