From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Docstring for define-key Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:21:06 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84adgsjkq0.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045765430 30685 80.91.224.249 (20 Feb 2003 18:23:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 18:23:50 +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 18lvMK-0007ye-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:23:48 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18lvZx-00033Y-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 19:37:53 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lvL0-00012D-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:22:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lvKK-0000la-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:21:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lvKD-0000cB-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:21:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lvJi-0000Di-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:21:06 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18lvJi-0002DS-00; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:21:06 -0500 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-reply-to: <84adgsjkq0.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11791 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11791 So one possibility to change it is like this: If KEYMAP is a sparse keymap with a binding for KEY, the existing binding is altered. If there is no binding for KEY, the new pair binding KEY to DEF is added at the front of KEYMAP. The wording is not very good, I think. It looks good.