Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?

[David Kastrup]

Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> > Kevin Rodgers <address@hidden> writes:
> >>That seems to require the following patch; is this a known bug in `kbd'?
> ...
> > Well, what about "KEYS should be a string constant" don't you
> > understand?
> 
> 
> All of it, apparently.  :-)
> 
> > It is documented right there in the piece you have quoted
> > in the patch, and it is probably this way for efficiency reasons.
> 
> I can't see any significant efficiency savings in restricting such a simple
> macro's sole argument to a constant.

You can't evaluate it at compile time if it isn't a constant.  The
macro is there to provide a more readable (and portable) way to encode
fixed key sequences.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum