Re: master 192f935 1/3: Add 'define-keymap' and 'defvar-keymap'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> +@item :copy
>> +If non-@code{nil}, copy this keymap and use it as the basis
>> +(@pxref{Creating Keymaps}).
>
> Could we remove this option?  I think we shouldn't encourage use of
> `copy-keymap`, and I can't remember the last time I needed to copy
> a keymap: inheritance works as well.

I wanted to have a feature set that would enable rewriting all
-mode-maps without any change in the resulting maps, and `copy-keymap'
is used in a few of them.  So I added it, even though it's obscure to me
why it's being used...

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no