bug#66022: 30.0.50; kmacro overwriting global keybindings

[Gerd Möllmann]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,  66022@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:40:06 +0200
>> 
>> I'm using use-package (+ straight) in my init.el, and because of that
>> the bindings are done, behind the scenes, with bind-key.  The
>> use-package binding f2 looks like (stripped down):
>> 
>>   (use-package emacs
>>     :bind
>>     ;; FIXME: The function key bindings sometimes mysteriously
>>     ;; disappear, and are replaced with the original bindings in
>>     ;; global-map.
>>     ("<f2>" . mode-line-other-buffer))
>
> What does use-package do when the "package" is "emacs"?  IOW, at what
> point in time will the above binding be executed, and what event will
> trigger that?

Nothing.  It's sort of an idiom I found on the net for general
customizations and so on that don't belong to a particular package.
Some people apparently name it "general".