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Re: \\{foo-mode-map}


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: \\{foo-mode-map}
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:06:22 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> `C-h m' displays the doc string of the current major mode.  It does not
> output the mode map -- unless the programmer has put \\{foo-mode-map}
> into the doc string.  Many modes do not, which means that the user has
> to rely on `C-h b' to try to find out what the available commands are.
> Which isn't optimal.

IIRC `define-derived-mode` adds that `\\{foo-mode-map}` thingy unless
there are already some `\\[...]` in the docstring.

> And then we could stop encouraging that these doc strings include
> \\{foo-mode-map}.

We definitely don't need to do that (better encourage the use of
`define-derived-mode` instead).


        Stefan




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