From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How does command remapping actually work? Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 09:24:22 +0300 Message-ID: <83r1fhskmh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877dh9em99.fsf@mbork.pl> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7536"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 29 08:25:54 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1m8zUP-0001lH-Rq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:25:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43896 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8zUO-0001fz-G9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:25:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8zTE-0001bA-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:57428) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8zTE-0000RO-3s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:24:40 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:3798 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1m8zTD-0001er-OD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 02:24:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877dh9em99.fsf@mbork.pl> (message from Marcin Borkowski on Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:12:50 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:132169 Archived-At: > From: Marcin Borkowski > Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 07:12:50 +0200 > > I experimented a bit with command remapping, and it's great - but how > does it actually work? I mean, apparently it doesn't change the keymap, > and it's not stored in its symbol plist, so where is the remapping info > actually stored? IOW, what is changed when I evaluate things like > > (define-key my-mode-map [remap kill-line] 'my-kill-line) The 'remap' pseudo-key works via special handling in the low-level keymap code, see the source of where-is-internal in keymap.c (search for "Qremap").