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C-h v some keymap now gives some numbers instead of the familiar bindings

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net, 25174 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#25174: C-h v some keymap now gives some numbers instead of the familiar bindings
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 03:31:41 +0200

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:

> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>
>> A keymap is just a list (or vector); C-h v should display it as is.
>
> It would display it "as is", it would just use a syntax like e.g. ?t
> instead of 166.  How would that be problematic?

I think it just sounds a bit confusing.  Would users believe that ?t is
something else than 166 just in a keymap context?  And no matter how you
display the keymap in `C-h v', it's going to be pretty incomprehensible.

But there's also a parallel bug report about adding a describe-keymap
command that'll display the keymap in a more sensible fashion (not as a
list/vector at all), and that's probably going to be merged.

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