Re: master 859190f 2/3: Convert some keymaps to defvar-keymap

[Gregory Heytings]

> > I understand, but edmacro is not preloaded, and files we do preload, 
> > like bindings.el, call define-key all over the place.  Letting all 
> > those calls fail, albeit silently, would not be useful, not if we want 
> > to be able to use 'kbd' syntax freely in preloaded files.  So I'm not 
> > sure I understand how your proposal will work in practice.
>
> The question (at least as I understood is) was to make it possible for 
> users (in their init files) and third-party packages to use a more 
> readable syntax for key bindings, without wrapping each key binding in a 
> call to kbd.  That would have been a first step towards phasing out the 
> "strings where every char represents an event" syntax.  Perhaps the 
> check for (fboundp 'kbd) could have been replaced by a (will_bootstrap_p 
> () || will_dump_p ()) check to avoid the unnecessary calls during 
> bootstrap.
>
> A second step would be to preload edmacro-parse-keys, to make it 
> possible to use the kbd syntax in other preloaded files too.

Now that Stefan K has written a patch to move kbd and edmacro-parse-keys 
to subr.el, the distinction above is not necessary anymore.  With the 
proposed patch (which would probably need some more work) it would be 
possible to use the kbd syntax in define-key and friends without 
explicitly calling kbd.  But again I don't really see why we're discussing 
this, given that Lars and Stefan K already said it's a no go.