Re: Customizing key bindings (was: Re: [CVS] f7, f8 bound..)

[Per Abrahamsen]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     How about allowing a more declarative form like
>
>       (defkeymap my-mode-map
>       '(([mouse-1] . foo)
>         (([mouse-2] "f" "e" "\C-m") . open-file))
>       "Keymap for My mode."
>       :group 'foo
>       :inherit his-mode-map)
>
> That is a clean interface, but the crucial question is, what would it
> expand into?  Would it just be a defvar for my-mode-map, or a
> defcustom for my-mode-map?  Or would it produce something else?  If
> so, what else?

It is just a variation of the code Alex already posted.  It creates a
variable my-mode-map whose value is a keymap with the specified
bindings, and which can be customized with customize-option.  The
variable belongs to the foo customize group, and the keymap inherits
from his-mode-map.