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History of 2024-10-19 substitute-command-keys

2024-10-19
		16:49 UTC Revision 1 . . . . mbork – Today I have a short tip for everyone that codes Elisp (for other people or even only for themselves), inspired by something I wrote recently (and will blog about soon, too). If you want to tell the user things like “press C-c C-c to finish what you are doing”, don’t hardcode the keybindings in the message string. You may bind the command to finish whatever the user is doing to C-c C-c, true, but the user could rebind it to <f10> or even M-s s-a or whatever key they like, or even unbind it completely. Instead, use the following syntax