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[PATCH] `repeat-echo-message-string': support repeat keymap "hints"

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From: Juri Linkov <juri <at> linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 70576 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, jdtsmith <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#70576: [PATCH] `repeat-echo-message-string': support repeat keymap "hints"
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.

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