Re: Global keymaps

[Stefan Monnier]

>>>> Please review the following patch.  It creates a new keymap
>>> It looks OK, tho I wonder why you introduce all those
>>> foo-map-prefix thingies.  I know such things are already used elsehwere,
>>> but they've never made much sense to me.
>> 
>> I took them from ctl-x-4-prefix, ctl-x-5-prefix and other similar maps
>> and don't know what they are good for.  So I could install the patch
>> without them.

Then please install it without them.

> I think names like ctl-x-4-prefix could make sense for a user trying to add
> new key bindings.

The issue is not the name, but the fact of providing the keymap both as
variables and as functions.


        Stefan