Re: SQ: why transient instead of enhanced keymaps?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:54:35 -0800
> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> 
> Transient is now an included battery that provides quick-access menus, mostly 
> famously for magit. People
> love it. But the overall effect of including it is that we have two keymap 
> systems, one of which, transient, isn't
> customizable the same way keymaps usually are. Why wasn't transient 
> functionality provided by making
> keymaps better? I don't see why in principle they couldn't do the same things.

AFAICT, it never came up in the discussions we had about it:

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-02/msg01384.html
  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-04/msg00944.html