Subject: Re: bug#20528: 25.0.50; `keymap' property to work for symbol-value, not just symbol-function

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 08:38:22 +0200

Drew Adams <[email-masked]> writes:

> Please allow it to also be a symbol, such as `Info-mode-map', whose
> `symbol-value' is a keymap.  It is used only as a keymap.  It is not
> used as a function.  It is convenient to be able to reuse an existing
> keymap variable to provide a map for a given portion of text.

Why can't you dereference the variable when assigning the property?

Andreas.

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