GNU bug report logs - #39802
(info "(emacs) Init Rebinding") doesn't explain how to unbind local keys

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Message #36 received at 39802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 39802 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Subject: Re: bug#39802: (info "(emacs) Init Rebinding") needs to say it is
 impossible to unbind local keys
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 05:04:57 -0500

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>>    As described in @ref{Local Keymaps}, major modes and minor modes can
>> -define local keymaps.  These keymaps are constructed when the mode is
>> -used for the first time in a session.

> This loses useful information in the sentence that starts with "These
> keymaps".

I moved that information to the next paragraph:
 
    +  Since a mode's keymaps are not constructed until it has been loaded,

(I think "until it has been loaded" is more accurate than "used for the
first time", since the file can be loaded without actually using the
mode defined within.)

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