Subject: Re: bug#74140: [PATCH] Add :continue-only directive for repeat maps in bind-keys, use-package

From: Paul Nelson <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 09:29:20 +0100

On Fri, Nov 1, 2024 at 9:15 AM Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> > For a command and its key in a repeat map:
> > - "activate" means the command makes the repeat map active
> > - "continue" means pressing the key keeps the repeat map active
> >
> > With this patch, the available directives are:
> > :continue (default) - activates and continues
> > :exit - neither activates nor continues
> > :continue-only (new) - continues, but does not activate
>
> How does this map to the properties ':enter' and ':exit' of 'defvar-keymap'?

:exit has the same meaning in both.

In defvar-keymap, :enter means "activate, but do not continue".