Re: Moving kbd to subr.el

[Gregory Heytings]

> I think Stefan K suggested making a whole new set of all these functions 
> that would only understand the new syntax.  I didn't think that would be 
> doable, because there's so many of them, but I didn't actually count.

It's not only the number of functions that counts, it's the number of 
times they are used.  define-key only is used ~15000 times in core and 
ELPA.

> So, new random thought:
>
> kbd-keymap
> kbd-define
> kbd-set-globally
> kbd-unset-globally 
> kbd-set-locally
> kbd-unset-locally
> kbd-lookup

As I already said earlier, that's unreasonable.  It's clear that at some 
point the old functions will be deprecated, so in the end it puts the 
burden on all users and package authors to change their code at many 
places.  When it is possible to ask instead a few users and package 
authors to change a few characters at a few places.

And I bow out of this thread, somehow I feel that my contributions are not 
welcome anymore.