GNU bug report logs - #66022
30.0.50; kmacro overwriting global keybindings

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Message #92 received at 66022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 66022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#66022: 30.0.50; kmacro overwriting global keybindings
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 18:09:03 +0300

> From: Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,  66022 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:56:55 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Any idea why a call to 'documentation' loads loaddefs?  Did you indeed
> > "hack the Emacs you were running"?
> 
> No idea, and I didn't hack it at all.  This was a minute after I started
> a newly-build Emacs, wondered why a C-c C-k binding didn't work.  I
> then pressed C-c alone to see what it is bound to, with which-key.

So I think this now becomes the main question.  If this is not a bug,
i.e. if loaddefs can legitimately be loaded mid-session, we cannot
autoload key bindings, at least not naïvely as we do now.

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