Re: Moving kbd to subr.el

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 19.10.2021 16:38, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I think Stefan K suggested making a whole new set of all these functions
> that would only understand the new syntax.  I didn't think that would be
> doable, because there's so many of them, but I didn't actually count.
> Let's see...
>
> define-keymap
> define-key
> global-set-key
> global-unset-key
> local-set-key
> local-unset-key
> lookup-key
>
> OK, that's fewer than I thought.  So, new random thought:
>
> kbd-keymap
> kbd-define
> kbd-set-globally
> kbd-unset-globally
> kbd-set-locally
> kbd-unset-locally
> kbd-lookup

Perhaps one alternative is to warn about "outdated" syntax in the linter 
(which is currently part of the byte-compiler). It won't catch all uses, 
but enough of them to warn the vast majority of users.