RE: bind buffer-modifying keys to `undefined' in buffers where no modification should occur?

[Drew Adams]

That's just what I was suggesting (though I used `undefined' instead of
`ignore') - for all keys bound to buffer-modifying commands. I don't think
that's really the same as unbinding those keys, though. (But it's OK by me.)

-----Original Message-----From: Kim F. Storm
"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:
> can you effectively
> unbind a (global) key sequence for a given mode?]

(define-key local-map [remap self-insert-command] 'ignore)

However C-h b doesn't show the effect of this in a very sensible
manner:

<remap> <self-insert-command>   ignore

This shows three problems with C-h b:

- it should list the actual bindings rather than <remap> ...

- it should not list the unmapped bindings

- it should skip bindings to 'ignore' (effectively omitting
  all bindings that don't have any effect).