Subject: bug#9819: 24.0.50; Docstring of `define-minor-mode' and KEYMAP

From: "Drew Adams" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:58:46 -0700

> >      If KEYMAP is not a symbol, this also defines the 
> >      variable MODE-map.
> 
> nil is a symbol. :(
> If you pass a keymap argument that is not a symbol, eg:
> :keymap '(("\C-a" . foo-command)
> then a `foo-mode-map' variable will be defined and given that 
> map as its value.

It might be clearer to say just what you said, i.e., something like "If you pass
a non-symbol KEYMAP argument..." or even more explicitly, "If KEYMAP is a cons
that is a keymap..."