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authorStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2005-06-12 16:57:08 +0000
committerStefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>2005-06-12 16:57:08 +0000
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diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el
index 5ba9c094355..943f052fc6d 100644
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/derived.el
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
;;; derived.el --- allow inheritance of major modes
-;;; (formerly mode-clone.el)
+;; (formerly mode-clone.el)
;; Copyright (C) 1993, 1994, 1999, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@@ -221,6 +221,12 @@ See Info node `(elisp)Derived Modes' for more details."
(get (quote ,parent) 'mode-class)))
; Set up maps and tables.
(unless (keymap-parent ,map)
+ ;; It would probably be better to set the keymap's parent
+ ;; at the toplevel rather than inside the mode function,
+ ;; but this is not easy for at least the following reasons:
+ ;; - the parent (and its keymap) may not yet be loaded.
+ ;; - the parent's keymap name may be called something else
+ ;; than <parent>-mode-map.
(set-keymap-parent ,map (current-local-map)))
,(when declare-syntax
`(let ((parent (char-table-parent ,syntax)))
@@ -440,5 +446,5 @@ Where the new table already has an entry, nothing is copied from the old one."
(provide 'derived)
-;;; arch-tag: 630be248-47d1-4f02-afa0-8207de0ebea0
+;; arch-tag: 630be248-47d1-4f02-afa0-8207de0ebea0
;;; derived.el ends here