of them are @dfn{active}, meaning that they participate in the
interpretation of user input. All the active keymaps are used
together to determine what command to execute when a key is entered.
-Emacs searches these keymaps one by one, in a standard order, until it
-finds a binding in one of the keymaps.
Normally the active keymaps are the @code{keymap} property keymap,
the keymaps of any enabled minor modes, the current buffer's local
-keymap, and the global keymap, in that order. Therefore, Emacs
-searches for each input key sequence in all these keymaps. Here is a
-pseudo-Lisp description of how this process works:
-
-@lisp
-(or (if overriding-terminal-local-map
- (@var{find-in} overriding-terminal-local-map)
- (if overriding-local-map
- (@var{find-in} overriding-local-map)
- (or (@var{find-in} (get-text-property (point) 'keymap))
- (@var{find-in-any} emulation-mode-map-alists)
- (@var{find-in-any} minor-mode-overriding-map-alist)
- (@var{find-in-any} minor-mode-map-alist)
- (if (get-text-property (point) 'local-map)
- (@var{find-in} (get-text-property (point) 'local-map))
- (@var{find-in} (current-local-map))))))
- (@var{find-in} (current-global-map)))
-@end lisp
-
-@noindent
-Here, the pseudo-function @var{find-in} means to look up the key
-sequence in a single map, and @var{find-in-any} means to search the
-appropriate keymaps from an alist. (Searching a single keymap for a
-binding is called @dfn{key lookup}; see @ref{Key Lookup}.)
+keymap, and the global keymap, in that order. Emacs searches for each
+input key sequence in all these keymaps. @xref{Searching Keymaps},
+for more details of this procedure.
The @dfn{global keymap} holds the bindings of keys that are defined
regardless of the current buffer, such as @kbd{C-f}. The variable
@node Searching Keymaps
@section Searching the Active Keymaps
- After translation of event subsequences (@pxref{Translation Keymaps})
-Emacs looks for them in the active keymaps. Here is a pseudo-Lisp
-description of the order in which the active keymaps are searched:
+ After translation of event subsequences (@pxref{Translation
+Keymaps}) Emacs looks for them in the active keymaps. Here is a
+pseudo-Lisp description of the order and conditions for searching
+them:
@lisp
(or (if overriding-terminal-local-map
@noindent
The @var{find-in} and @var{find-in-any} are pseudo functions that
search in one keymap and in an alist of keymaps, respectively.
+(Searching a single keymap for a binding is called @dfn{key lookup};
+see @ref{Key Lookup}.)
@enumerate
@item