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Re: Suggestion for improving ergonomics of repeat-maps: define-repeat-ma


From: Lars Ingebrigtsen
Subject: Re: Suggestion for improving ergonomics of repeat-maps: define-repeat-map
Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 13:33:47 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:

> To be honest, I was surprised to see defvar-keymap as a separate macro.
> I was expecting, e.g. define-keymap to be used inside a defvar,
> something like:
>
>   (defvar foo-map
>     (define-keymap ...)
>     "Docstring for foo-map.")
>
> Not to complain about having the macro, of course.  :)

It was a late addition.  I started converting a couple keymaps to check
the ergonomics, and it became clear that >90% of the usages would look
just like that, so I added the macro version.

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