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[PATCH] docs: mention the keymap to add keybindings to for term-mode

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 69786 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#69786: [PATCH] docs: mention the keymap to add keybindings to for term-mode
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 07:11:05 +0200

> From: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 02:39:23 +0300
> 
> I've spent quite some time today trying to somehow override keybindings
> for term-mode. While time was spent mostly due to some local mistakes,
> one problem I also noticed is that term-mode has `term-mode-map` —
> pretty much like any other major mode foo typically have `foo-mode-
> map`. However, adding keybindings into it has no effect whatsoever.
> Instead term-mode has an additional `term-raw-map`, which is the actual
> location where one has to put custom bindings.
> 
> It is completely non-intuitive (and I also for some reason didn't get
> the answer on emacs.stackexchange for the same problem when I was
> trying to google it), so let's document that nuisance.

Thanks, but the Emacs user manual is not the right place for this kind
of information.  Instead, this should be mentioned in the doc string
of term-mode.

Btw, your understanding of this is at least inaccurate if not
incorrect: whether custom key bindings should be added to
term-mode-map or term-raw-map depends on whether you want them for the
line mode or for the raw mode.  The documentation should say so.

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