Re: Defining keys in derived modes

["Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

Johan Bockgård wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> (define-derived-mode nxhtml-part-mode nxhtml-mode "nXhtmlPart" [...]
>>
>> (defvar nxhtml-part-mode-map [...]
>>
>> I would expect it to also contain the definition of C-c t, but it
>> does not. Should it behave this way?
> 
>  -- Special Form: defvar symbol [value [doc-string]]
>     [...]
>      If SYMBOL is void and VALUE is specified, `defvar' evaluates it
>      and sets SYMBOL to the result.  But if SYMBOL already has a value
>      (i.e., it is not void), VALUE is not even evaluated, and SYMBOL's
>      value remains unchanged.

Thanks, yes, but I am a bit confused. There is something else going on 
too, it works defining in that order now, after restarting Emacs. Maybe 
something I do not understand in the compilation order? (I do not claim 
to understand anything there at all, I am just referring to my vague 
picture of it ;-)