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bug#20528: 25.0.50; `keymap' property to work for symbol-value, not just
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#20528: 25.0.50; `keymap' property to work for symbol-value, not just symbol-function |
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Fri, 08 May 2015 17:33:19 +0200 |
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Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> > Please allow it to also be a symbol, such as `Info-mode-map',
>> > whose `symbol-value' is a keymap. It is used only as a keymap.
>> > It is not used as a function. It is convenient to be able to
>> > reuse an existing keymap variable to provide a map for a given
>> > portion of text.
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>> Why can't you dereference the variable when assigning the property?
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> Why can't you dereference the function symbol when assigning the
> property? ;-)
That's how lisp works, fundamentally.
Andreas.
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