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29.0.50; Using shorthand syntax in keymap-global-set

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Message #16 received at 55842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: arash <at> gnu.org, 55842 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#55842: 29.0.50; Using shorthand syntax in keymap-global-set
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:37:06 +0200

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

> Without thinking about this too much, my opinion is that if the new
> APIs are to be the replacement for the obsolete ones, they had better
> supported the same syntax, because I don't believe there's a single
> Emacs user out there who doesn't have some key bindings in their init
> files.  If the syntax is incompatible, how can we ever convince the
> majority to switch?

I'm not sure what you mean here.  People that previously said
(local-set-key "\C-\M-i" ... ) can say (keymap-local-set "C-M-i" ...)
just fine.

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