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bug#20528: 25.0.50; `keymap' property to work for symbol-value, not just


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#20528: 25.0.50; `keymap' property to work for symbol-value, not just symbol-function
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 17:33:19 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> > Please allow it to also be a symbol, such as `Info-mode-map',
>> > whose `symbol-value' is a keymap.  It is used only as a keymap.
>> > It is not used as a function.  It is convenient to be able to
>> > reuse an existing keymap variable to provide a map for a given
>> > portion of text.
>> 
>> Why can't you dereference the variable when assigning the property?
>
> Why can't you dereference the function symbol when assigning the
> property? ;-)

That's how lisp works, fundamentally.

Andreas.

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