Re: set-temporary-overlay-map seems poorly named

[Bozhidar Batsov]

+1 for "transient".

On 22 December 2013 02:36, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> This function, new in Emacs 24.4, seems to have nothing to do with
>> overlays in the usual Emacs sense.  So it's a bad name.
>>
>> How about renaming it to `set-transient-keymap'?
>
> 'set-temporary-overriding-map', perhaps?

This might be confusing, since overriding-local-map takes precedence
over the temporary map.

The reason I think "transient" is a good term to use is that we already
use that word in Emacs in `transient-mode-map' to mean the same sort of
behavior: a mode of operation which features disappears after doing
something, returning you to the previous behavior.  (We also use the
word "electric" similarly, but that is a lot more cryptic.)