Re: Moving kbd to subr.el

[Juri Linkov]

>> The old string syntax for keys just sucks and we should work towards
>> its reduction, even if it will stay with us for the foreseeable future.
>
> I totally agree that the old string syntax for keys sucks, but there is
> no realistic way to phase it out.  `kbd' was a nice attempt, but it's
> not attractive enough as is.  My hope is that the new syntax (which
> gives you actual error messages if you do something wrong and stuff)
> will spur conversion.

The first step to phase the old syntax out would be to use the new syntax
in define-keymap and defvar-keymap by default.

This is nicer:

   "P"         #'cvs-status-prev
   "M-n"       #'cvs-status-next
   "M-p"       #'cvs-status-prev
   "t"         #'cvs-status-cvstrees

than this:

   :kbd nil
   "P"         #'cvs-status-prev
   ["M-n"]     #'cvs-status-next
   ["M-p"]     #'cvs-status-prev
   "t"         #'cvs-status-cvstrees