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describe-keymap: suggest symbol at point

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From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 55393 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55393: describe-keymap: suggest symbol at point
Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 13:12:26 +0530

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[வெள்ளி மே 13, 2022] Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Visuwesh <visuweshm <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: 55393 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 13 May 2022 12:05:42 +0530
>> 
>> > Yes, but I think a cleaner solution would be to do this kind of stuff
>> > in the 'interactive' form of describe-keymap, instead of this
>> > subroutine.  The DWIM-ish operation of describe-SOMETHING commands is
>> > better done there, because it doesn't really belong to non-interactive
>> > invocations.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> 
>> The 'interactive' form of describe-keymap uses this function.  I don't
>> see this function being used anywhere else either.
>
> Nothing prevents future reuse of the subroutine in another place.  I
> would prefer to have this code directly in the interactive form, to be
> more future-proof.  And note that the if-let form's result is not used
> in any way in the rest of the code of that function, which also speaks
> volumes of its being an independent issue.

Now done, please check.

[0001-describe-keymap-Suggest-symbol-at-point.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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