Subject: bug#70576: [PATCH] `repeat-echo-message-string': support repeat keymap "hints"

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 21:14:29 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Thu, 02 May 2024 19:16:06 +0300
> 
> >> >>> (defvar-keymap expreg-repeat-map
> >> >>>    :doc "Repeat map for `expreg' actions."
> >> >>>    :repeat '(:hints ((expreg-expand . "expand") (expreg-contract . "contract")))
> >> >>>    "\\" 'expreg-expand
> >> >>>    "|"  'expreg-contract)
> >> >>
> >> >> If a hint is missing for a command, it should just have its key mentioned.
> >> >> It looks like your idea would require changes to defvar-keymap.  Do you
> >> >> want to propose a patch?  We'd need some way to pass the hints in; perhaps
> >> >> the macro could set a property on the command symbol as you initially
> >> >> proposed.
> >> >
> >> > Alright, let's add this to defvar-keymap.  Please try the following patch.
> >>
> >> Thanks for the feature request.  This is pushed now.
> >
> > Thanks, but please also update the ELisp manual and add an entry to
> > NEWS about this change.
> 
> A NEWS entry was already added with "---" since I didn't expect that
> such a small feature that is not used anywhere needs to grow
> the size of the manual.

I don't see how we can avoid updating the ELisp manual, when the other
values of :repeat are already documented there, see the node "Creating
Keymaps".

So please add the description of the new value to those already
documented there.