Re: Customizing key bindings (was: Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound..)

[Per Abrahamsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Everytime customize "set" the variable, the entire keymap is recreated
>     from scratch.
>
> It is not entirely clear what "from scratch" means here.  The natural
> meaning of "create the global map again from scratch" would mean to
> make an empty map and load bindings.el into it, but I am sure that is
> not what the code does.
>
> Could someone please explain more precisely what data it is recreated
> from?  That makes all the difference.

>From the custructer given as the second argument to defcustom.  That
constructor is the 'standard-value' symbol property, and used whenever
the user modify the keymap through customize.