Re: [External] : Re: From global-set-key to keymap-global-set

[uzibalqa]

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On Thursday, July 6th, 2023 at 12:02 AM, uzibalqa <uzibalqa@proton.me> wrote:


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> On Wednesday, July 5th, 2023 at 11:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
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> > > Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2023 09:44:41 +0000
> > > From: uzibalqa uzibalqa@proton.me
> > > Cc: Drew Adams drew.adams@oracle.com, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org, 
> > > "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > > 
> > > Eli, are we meant to use keymap-global-set this way in order
> > > to make an alternative keymap ?
> > > 
> > > (keymap-global-set "C-;" "C-x C-;")
> > 
> > I don't think I understand the question. What do you mean by "make an
> > alternative map"?
> 
> 
> Following up on Drew's "What's a command and its purported replacement",
> are "keymap-set" and "keymap-global-set" supposed to accept the declarations
> where command is actually a keymap like so
> 
> (keymap-set "C-;" "C-x C-;")
> (keymap-global-set "C-;" "C-x C-;")
> 
> Which is intended to add the keymap "C-;" as an equivalence to "C-x C-;",'and
> thusly having "C-;" as an alternative keymap to using "C-x C-;".

It makes sense to use (keymap-set "C-;" (kbd "C-x C-;")) 
because (kbd "C-x C-;") looks as a command.