Re: bindings.el grabs C-c

[Luc Teirlinck]

Deepak Goel wrote:

   emacs -q -no-site-file 

   * Bind 
    (global-set-key "\C-ca" 'beginning-of-line)
    .. it works..


   *  (load "bindings.el")

   * The C-c a bound above stops working.

That is because bindings.el contains:

(defalias 'mode-specific-command-prefix (make-sparse-keymap))
(defvar mode-specific-map (symbol-function 'mode-specific-command-prefix)
  "Keymap for characters following C-c.")
(define-key global-map "\C-c" 'mode-specific-command-prefix)

The first line is the only relevant one.  I pasted the others for
context.  Clearly, the keymap containing your C-c a binding is no
longer associated with C-c, which has a fresh keymap now, "thanks to"
that first line.  Is this a bug, however?  Why would one want to
reload "bindings.el" other than to reinitialize?

If it would be considered a bug, I guess one could do something style:

(unless (fboundp 'mode-specific-command-prefix)
    ...

or similar.  (Maybe throw in an extra keymapp, whatever.)  Again, I am
not immediately completely sure that it should be considered a bug,
however.

Sincerely,

Luc.