Re: keymap inheritance for non-sparse keymaps

[Miles Bader]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>     In particular, anytime you use `suppress-keymap', you probably want to
>     use a non-sparse keymap (because suppress-keymap works by binding lots
>     of keys to `undefined'), even if you're going to only bind a few keys of
>     your own.
> 
> Why do you want a parent for such a keymap?

Because that mode (debug-mode) uses buttons now, so I wanted to use
`button-buffer-map' as a parent keymap, which adds some common bindings
for buffers that use buttons (currently only TAB and backtab).

-Miles
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