Re: Looking up key myself

[Miles Bader]

"Herbert Euler" <address@hidden> writes:
>>(let ((minor-mode-overriding-map-alist
>>        `((my-mode . ,(make-sparse-keymap)))))
>>   (key-binding "a"))
>>
>>It's much simpler than rewriting key-binding.
>
> But even in this way I need to find old key bindings, and
> skip my minor mode in the finding process.

No, I think his point was that using this method, it _will_ ignore your
bindings during the lookup, because the key-map associated with `my-mode'
inside the let will be empty.

In other words, you (1) use a permanent entry in
`minor-mode-overriding-map-alist' with a non-empty keymap to define your
"normal" minor-mode bindings, and then (2) when you want to lookup the
underlying bindings, you temporarily bind `minor-mode-overriding-map-alist'
as shown above to hide your bindings during the key lookup.

[I've never tried this, so I dunno if it really works, but it looks very
elegant...]

-Miles
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