Re: [emms-help] Why are maps declared with defconst?

[Yoni Rabkin]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> writes:

> Do you mean the following?
>
>      (defvar my-mode-map nil
>        DOCSTRING)
>      (unless my-mode-map
>        (let ((map (make-sparse-keymap)))
>          (define-key map "\C-c\C-a" 'my-command)
>          ...
>          (setq my-mode-map map)))
>

yup

Personally, I can take it or leave it since it is obviously a kludge to
move the docstring closer to where it makes sense.

So moving to defvar with this or with the old style both sound fine to
me.

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