From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Per Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customizing key bindings (was: Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound..) Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:51:08 +0200 Organization: The Church of Emacs Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200208271621.g7RGLNm30516@rum.cs.yale.edu> <874rdfaytt.fsf@pot.cnuce.cnr.it> <5xvg5sh06u.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> <20020830235528.GA13207@gnu.org> <87ofbji88u.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87sn0scb0b.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87bs7er99v.fsf@emacswiki.org> <877ki2r8nr.fsf@emacswiki.org> <87y9aipop2.fsf@emacswiki.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031305896 22958 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2002 09:51:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 09:51:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17nFm0-0005xm-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 11:51:32 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17nGM6-0003dJ-00 for ; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 12:28:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17nFna-0000TF-00; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 05:53:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17nFlm-0000Jo-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 05:51:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17nFlk-0000Jc-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 05:51:17 -0400 Original-Received: from sheridan.dina.kvl.dk ([130.225.40.227]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17nFlh-0000J6-00; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 05:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from zuse.dina.kvl.dk (zuse.dina.kvl.dk [130.225.40.245]) by sheridan.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Debian 8.9.3-21) with ESMTP id LAA24904; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:51:12 +0200 Original-Received: (from abraham@localhost) by zuse.dina.kvl.dk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id LAA02639; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 11:51:09 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: zuse.dina.kvl.dk: abraham set sender to abraham@dina.kvl.dk using -f Original-To: rms@gnu.org X-Face: +kRV2]2q}lixHkE{U)mY#+6]{AH=yN~S9@IFiOa@X6?GM|8MBp/ In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:01:19 -0400") Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.8) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:7611 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:7611 Richard Stallman writes: > Everytime customize "set" the variable, the entire keymap is recreated > from scratch. > > It is not entirely clear what "from scratch" means here. The natural > meaning of "create the global map again from scratch" would mean to > make an empty map and load bindings.el into it, but I am sure that is > not what the code does. > > Could someone please explain more precisely what data it is recreated > from? That makes all the difference. >From the custructer given as the second argument to defcustom. That constructor is the 'standard-value' symbol property, and used whenever the user modify the keymap through customize.