Re: Moving kbd to subr.el

[Gregory Heytings]

> > At the same time, maybe I don't understand the overreaching plan.  Is 
> > the idea to be able to replace any use of (kbd "M-x") with ["M-x"] 
> > everywhere, including in 'define-key' et al?
>
> Any use of (kbd "M-x") can't be replaced with ["M-x"]. For example, this 
> use from (info "(elisp) Functions for Key Lookup")
>
>  (lookup-key (current-global-map) (kbd "C-x C-f"))
>
> can't be replaced with:
>
>  (lookup-key (current-global-map) ["C-x C-f"])

But note that with my patch it can be replaced with

(lookup-key (current-global-map) "C-x C-f")