Re: Moving kbd to subr.el

[Stefan Monnier]

>> because it probably means that we (at some point in the future) can
>> drop the string representation altogether (as a return value from
>> `kbd').
> Hmm, I'd like to hear what Stefan Monnier has to say about this.

FWIW, I removed the `need-vector` arg (and simplified the code
accordingly assuming it's always non-nil) and haven't found any
problems, so the uses that aren't prepared to handle a string return
value seem quite rare (tho Murphy swears they exist).

> A good first step should in any case be to say in the 'kbd' docstring
> that the string syntax is considered obsolete, and that callers should
> prepare to handle a vector return value instead.  Perhaps we could
> document this already in emacs-28.

Fine by me,


        Stefan