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| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2008-04-20 13:38:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> | 2008-04-20 13:38:19 +0000 |
| commit | 0f2ae894c592f653a89334513fb1f71cc0efd704 (patch) | |
| tree | 412c6f0036d500b443d921aefd387715ef2f8819 /doc/lispref/keymaps.texi | |
| parent | 32c9459805678310176a9dc2f539ee072e593b07 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-0f2ae894c592f653a89334513fb1f71cc0efd704.tar.gz | |
(Active Keymaps): Clarify role of underlying textprop and overlay
keymaps for display strings.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/lispref/keymaps.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/keymaps.texi | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/keymaps.texi b/doc/lispref/keymaps.texi index 125c4f0e706..08967a33b82 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/keymaps.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/keymaps.texi @@ -605,7 +605,9 @@ by a symbolic prefix), the active keymaps are determined based on the position in that event. If the event happened on a string embedded with a @code{display}, @code{before-string}, or @code{after-string} property (@pxref{Special Properties}), the non-@code{nil} map -properties of the string override those of the buffer. +properties of the string override those of the buffer (if the +underlying buffer text contains map properties in its text properties +or overlays, they are ignored). The @dfn{global keymap} holds the bindings of keys that are defined regardless of the current buffer, such as @kbd{C-f}. The variable |