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28.0.50; repeat mode feature request

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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: "49265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <49265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>, Ergus <spacibba <at> aol.com>, Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
Subject: bug#49265: [External] : bug#49265: 28.0.50; repeat mode feature request
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 14:53:28 +0000

>     Drew> The text is ambiguous.  If that's what you mean,
>     Drew> please reword it.  For example, this unambiguously
>     Drew> applies "repeatable" only to "commands":
> 
>     Drew>   Describe keymaps and repeatable commands.
> 
>     Drew> But is "describe keymaps" appropriate?  Or are the
>     Drew> keymaps that are described here only certain ones?
> 
> It only describes keymaps that have bindings to
> repeatable commands in them.

Yes, that's what I understood.  So the proposed doc
misleads.  (And it doesn't describe all such keymaps,
because it doesn't consider all repeatable commands -
see next.)

> I still think we should not mention keymaps at all, only bindings.

I agree.

And as I mentioned earlier, it should be made clear
in the doc that "repeatable" here means only commands
defined using `repeat.el'.

There are other ways to define repeatable commands,
and those commands aren't represented by this
describe feature.

(It's not even clear to me that this feature really
helps users.  A naming convention (combined with
`commandp', of course) makes more sense to me.)

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