Subject: Re: bug#66022: 30.0.50; kmacro overwriting global keybindings

From: Gerd Möllmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:52:07 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Gerd Möllmann <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
>> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 08:40:06 +0200
>> 
>> I'm using use-package (+ straight) in my init.el, and because of that
>> the bindings are done, behind the scenes, with bind-key.  The
>> use-package binding f2 looks like (stripped down):
>> 
>>   (use-package emacs
>>     :bind
>>     ;; FIXME: The function key bindings sometimes mysteriously
>>     ;; disappear, and are replaced with the original bindings in
>>     ;; global-map.
>>     ("<f2>" . mode-line-other-buffer))
>
> What does use-package do when the "package" is "emacs"?  IOW, at what
> point in time will the above binding be executed, and what event will
> trigger that?

Nothing.  It's sort of an idiom I found on the net for general
customizations and so on that don't belong to a particular package.
Some people apparently name it "general".