Re: Moving kbd to subr.el

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
>> OK, that's fewer than I thought.  So, new random thought:
>>
>> kbd-keymap
>> kbd-define

That's perhaps confusing.  Perhaps

define-kbdmap
define-kbd

but I guess there's something attractive about having them all with the
same prefix...

Er...

kdb-define-keymap
kbd-define-key

Hm...

>> kbd-set-globally
>> kbd-unset-globally
>> kbd-set-locally
>> kbd-unset-locally
>> kbd-lookup

[...]

> AFAICT, this approach has one important advantage that none of the
> others have: it frees us from most of the legacy stuff in one go,
> while still allowing us to leave the legacy interface as-is.

Yup.  And having "kbd" in the name should make it all less confusing,
perhaps, and we could (eventually) use the normal deprecation procedures
for the old functions.

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