Re: substitute-key-definition vs. define-key MAP [remap ...]

[David Kastrup]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> If I understand you correctly, that won't get into XEmacs any time
>> soon.  Do you really mean that `define-key' is allowed to effectively
>> change the command binding of a symbol globally, so that its function
>> definition is ignored in the context of interpreting keystrokes?  Ie,
>> `define-key' now turns Emacs into what is effectively a LISP-3?
>
> I don't know what "ignored in the context of interpreting keystrokes"
> means, nor what LISP-3 means.

I think a LISP-2 has both function and value cells associated with a
symbol (never mind print name and property list in that kind of
accounting), making Scheme a LISP-1.

-- 
David Kastrup