Re: master 859190f 2/3: Convert some keymaps to defvar-keymap

[Gregory Heytings]

> > If by "that" you mean "use a more readable syntax for key bindings, 
> > without wrapping each key binding in a call to kbd", then this is not 
> > what we will have, even with Stefan K's patch, with which it will be 
> > possible to use (kbd ...) in preloaded files.  To have "that", it would 
> > be necessary to go one step further.  Which was the main point of my 
> > proposal.
>
> Did you see Richard's reply in this thread?  I found it interesting and 
> worth thinking about, especially the part where he says "maybe we should 
> fully adopt a cleaner interface for specifying a key to bind".

Yes, I've seen his reply.  And I do not see what could be cleaner than the 
kbd syntax, which has AFAIK been adopted everywhere, including in the 
tutorial, manuals, error messages, help buffers, and so forth.

> I think it would be useful if we could come up with some ideas for what 
> something like that could look like.  Of course, nothing is a given, but 
> a good enough proposal might convince.

The only drawback of the proposal is that those who use for example 
(define-key some-map "C-" some-command) to mean "bind capital letter C 
followed by minus" would have to insert a space between "C" and "-" to 
avoid the ambiguity.  Frankly, I don't see how this minor, and as I've 
said almost theoretical problem, should force us to create yet another 
syntax and yet another set of key binding functions.