Re: On keybindings and the slow erosion of help's utility

> From: Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
> Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:07:49 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> >> > The command would test if point is on one of those specific lines, and
> >> > if not, call the binding of C-k in the "next" keymap in effect in the
> >> > buffer.
> >> 
> >> How to determine "next" keymap?
> >
> > Using the functions described in "(elisp) Functions for Key Look up".
> >
> > Basically, using the same methods as you intended this new feature to
> > use "to call whatever is bound to C-k as if C-k in foo-mode-map were
> > not bound at all".  If Emacs can do that, so can a Lisp program, or
> > what am I missing?
> 
> I still fail to see how to do it.

Let's start with keymap-global-look up.  If it won't find "whatever is
bound to C-k as if C-k in foo-mode-map were not bound at all", please
explain why.

> Consider that the command in question may be in foo-mode-map, but
> may also be in another keymap (e.g. bound by user).

I don't think I understand why this is important for the purposes of
this discussion.  What I wrote below doesn't use the fact that the
binding is in foo-mode-map, AFAICT.