Re: Global keymaps

[Stefan Monnier]

> A name like `ctl-x-n-map' is not descriptive indeed, but at least it
> doesn't limit the keymap to one particular functionality, and keeps
> it open for further unrelated bindings.  Since we already very tight
> on available keys, who knows what commands we will need in future on
> these keymaps especially if they will have unrelated but good mnemonics.

Hopefully, by the time we bump into this problem, we'll have multiple
inheritance for keymaps, so we can just define ctl-x-n-map to be a map
that inherits from narrow-map and from the-other-n-thing-map.


        Stefan