Re: buffer-local keymaps

[Roland Winkler]

On Thu Jan 12 2012 Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > A proper solution of bug#10254 (a bug in lisp/textmodes/bibtex.el)
> > requires that bibtex-mode uses not only buffer-local variables but
> > also buffer-local keymaps (for buffer-local menus).
> 
> There are many different ways to answer this question I think.
> If the differences are limited to menus, you can use a single keymap and
> rely on things like :filter, :enable, ... to dynamically adapt the
> menu's content to the buffer's state.

Thanks!

Yes, menus are all I have in mind. So such adaption of a single
keymap might be a better solution ...

> Otherwise, you can simply use-local-map with a different map in each
> buffer (I'd expect those maps to share a common ancestor, of course).

... than local keymaps. I'll look into this.

Roland