Re: Looking up key myself

[M Jared Finder]

Herbert Euler wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When writing my first minor mode, I was told that if I want commands
> in this minor mode able to call commands bound to the same key while
> this minor mode is not activated, I should lookup key myself.  Following
> (info "(elisp)Searching Keymaps"), I write

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I suggest using minor-mode-overriding-map-alist:

(let ((minor-mode-overriding-map-alist
       `((my-mode . ,(make-sparse-keymap)))))
  (key-binding "a"))

It's much simpler than rewriting key-binding.

  -- MJF