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Re: Warnings about keymaps
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Re: Warnings about keymaps |
Date: |
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:25:27 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> It may seem like a braindead case, but when comparing "broken code
> in corner cases" vs "incorrect warning in some cases", I prefer the
> incorrect warning.
Definitely.
>> I think it would be better to change define-derived-mode to not defvar
>> the map if it is already defined;
>
> I don't know how to do that.
Oh well, that makes two of us.
>> or to change easy-mode-defmap to not use defconst
>
> That might be an acceptable workaround. But the underlying problem will
> still be there.
But under a carpet. :)
>> (are you saying users should not add key bindings to
>> log-edit-mode-map, for example?).
>
> That's unrelated: defconst only says that the variable's binding won't
> change, not that the object it is bound to is immutable.
I don't understand that distinction. I just read the doc of defconst:
The intent is that neither programs nor users should ever change
this value.
which seems clear to me.
- Warnings about keymaps, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/09/11
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Glenn Morris, 2009/09/11
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/11
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Glenn Morris, 2009/09/14
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/14
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Glenn Morris, 2009/09/14
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/15
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Glenn Morris, 2009/09/17
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/17
- Re: Warnings about keymaps,
Glenn Morris <=
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/09/18
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Stefan Monnier, 2009/09/18
- Re: Warnings about keymaps, Richard Stallman, 2009/09/15