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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org> writes:

>> That's even more confusing.  If you want to only use kbd syntax,
>> then you have to use kbd explicitly for some key bindings (if you
>> want to bind "fp", for instance), but not for others.
>
> (kbd "fp") == "fp", so why would you need to use kbd explicitly to
> bind "fp"?

The kbd syntax for `f' `p' is "f p".

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f p runs the command (lambda nil (interactive)), which is an
interactive Lisp function.

It is bound to f p.
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So people that want to use kbd syntax to bind `f' `p', and `define-key'
runs other things through `kbd' automatically, they will write:

(define-key "f p" ...)

and be confused.

Instead they'll have to write

(define-key (kbd "f p") ...)
(define-key "C-c C-c" ...)

and it's all DWIM mess.

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