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From: | Bozhidar Batsov |
Subject: | Re: set-temporary-overlay-map seems poorly named |
Date: | Sun, 22 Dec 2013 10:38:22 +0200 |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:This might be confusing, since overriding-local-map takes precedence
>> This function, new in Emacs 24.4, seems to have nothing to do with
>> overlays in the usual Emacs sense. So it's a bad name.
>>
>> How about renaming it to `set-transient-keymap'?
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> 'set-temporary-overriding-map', perhaps?
over the temporary map.
The reason I think "transient" is a good term to use is that we already
use that word in Emacs in `transient-mode-map' to mean the same sort of
behavior: a mode of operation which features disappears after doing
something, returning you to the previous behavior. (We also use the
word "electric" similarly, but that is a lot more cryptic.)
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