Re: Getting the click position in a string

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> But I increasingly feel that this is not the right way to go, the
>> whole function should get dissed out, and instead we should have
>> something like
>
>> (posn-key-binding event &optional accept-default remap key)
>
> Sounds right.

I have taken a look how the command loop does this right now.  It
appears that read-key-sequence does all the lookup (and it is more or
less necessary to do so in order to decide when a key sequence is
finished), stuffs the looked-up command as a by-product into an
internal variable that appears not accessible at the Lisp level (at a
first glance), and the command loop picks it out from there.

Of all the ugly...

Factoring the keymap and partial keymaps out into a separate function
would probably not be trivial.  But even if code reuse might not be
practical, I think that something like posn-key-binding should be
implemented in keyboard.c so that there is some guarantee it will
deliver the same results.

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