Re: Round-tripping key definitions

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> Sadly, I think this will introduce a fair bit of trouble because code
> which currently does
>
>     (define-key map "\t" ...)
>
> expects this binding to apply to both `tab` and tty's TAB key.

Well, we could make `keymap-set' do just that (for these three keys), I
guess?  But I guess that takes us back to square one in the
distinguishing-intention game.

> I remember wanting such a repeatedly applied keymap a few times in the
> past, and similarly getting enough info for a function to be able to
> decide whether to do would be useful in other cases as well.

I'm not sure what that would look like...

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