The bindings between input events and commands are recorded in data structures called keymaps. Each binding in a keymap associates (or binds) an individual event type either to another keymap or to a command. When an event type is bound to a keymap, that keymap is used to look up the next input event; this continues until a command is found. The whole process is called key lookup.
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