Re: Suggestion for improving ergonomics of repeat-maps: define-repeat-map

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:

> I'm confused about a small detail, though: it seems that define-keymap
> allows keyword/value pairs inline with the key/binding pairs, but
> defvar-keymap requires the keyword/value pairs to be in a list, and an
> empty one when none are given.  The manual entry doesn't seem to cover
> this difference.

Doesn't the manual document the syntax of both of these?

But I guess it's a bit confusing how the syntaxes are similar but
different?  I went back and forth a number of time on the syntax --
define-keymap is a function, so it can't do the function-line macro
syntax that defvar-keymap can (which is better).  But having the first
argument of define-keymap be a list (which would be preferable in most
ways) just looked awkward.

(define-keymap (list :full t)
  ...)

But I'm open to changing it if it's too confusing the way it is now.

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