From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Have `define-key` return the keymap Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 11:13:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87d1bd7xr2.fsf@drachen> <9915c795-9efd-4cd8-aa0d-bc072eb340ee@default> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1494688462 19660 195.159.176.226 (13 May 2017 15:14:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 15:14:22 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 13 17:14:18 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d9YkM-00052K-Kd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 17:14:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57914 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9YkS-0007Vt-6M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 11:14:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Yji-0007Ui-1y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 11:13:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Yjd-0008DV-1t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 11:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=38053 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d9Yjc-000825-R7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 11:13:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d9YjP-0003fx-Be for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 13 May 2017 17:13:19 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:VRgAZ1GGJcO2tYeiBhcejgbB0us= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:214824 Archived-At: > I'm probably missing something, but (to me, so far) all of this > has the scent of a solution looking for a problem to solve. Indeed. If we're concerned about the redundancy in the various define-key calls for a keymap, then I'd rather we provide something like (defvar toto-mode-map (fumble-map map '(("a" foo) ("B" bar)))) -- Stefan