RE: [PATCH] Make `C-x {' and `C-x }' repeatable

[Drew Adams]

> >> I want to have a repeatable command bound to a key on `isearch-mode-map'.
> 
> Of course.  Bug#14095 is a clear bug

That's reassuring; thanks.  As no one had yet had a chance to respond
to the bug report, I wasn't sure that you would see it that way.

> linked to the following comment in set-temporary-overlay-map:
> 
>     ;; FIXME: That's the keymaps with highest precedence, except for
>     ;; the `keymap' text-property ;-(
> 
> the bug is actually wrong,

Do you mean that comment or the bug #14095 report?

> because additionally to the `keymap'
> property, overriding-local-map and overriding-terminal-local-map are two
> more keymaps of higher precedence.  So the right fix for it is to
> introduce a new keymap (call it "overriding-temporary-local-map" or
> something) which is like overriding-terminal-local-map except that it
> doesn't disable other keymaps (it just has higher precedence).

Sounds good to me (with limited understanding).

> > Maybe a better implementation would be with the help of
> > `set-temporary-overlay-map'.  I'll try to do this for Isearch.
> 
> Isearch might benefit from being changed to use such a new
> overriding-temporary-local-map as well.  It might let us drop the
> isearch-other-char command (which has the drawback of putting things
> back onto unread-command-event, which is inherently unreliable in the
> presence of some function-key-map bindings, among other problems).
> Of course, such a change might also bump into new problems.

A priori, that too sounds good to me (again, with limited understanding).