+ ;; Re <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-04/msg00123.html>,
+ ;; ideally we could ‘defvar’ here w/o value and also ‘defvar’ below
+ ;; in "load-time actions" w/ value and docstring, to avoid this ugly
+ ;; (from the forward references) block early in the file. Unfortunately,
+ ;; byte-compiling such a split formulation results in the initial ‘defvar’
+ ;; being replaced by:
+ ;; (defvar VAR (make-sparse-keymap))
+ ;; and the second ‘defvar’ is ignored on load. At least, this is the case
+ ;; for Emacs built from repo (trunk) 2014-05-27. --ttn