the goal here to mark functions and variables not used outside the
translation unit as static. main reason for this is cleanliness. however
as a side-effect this can help compilers optimize better as it now has
guarantee that a certain function won't be called outside of that
translation unit.
one other side-effect of this is that accessing these vars/function from
config.h is now different.
if one wants to access a static var/func from different translation unit
in config.h, he would have to create a wrapper function under the right
ifdef. for static functions one would also need to forward declare it.
here's a dummy example of accessing the function `run_key_handler` from
config.h under _MAPPINGS_CONFIG
```
static void run_key_handler(const char *, unsigned);
bool send_with_ctrl(arg_t key) {
run_key_handler(XKeysymToString(key), ControlMask);
return false;
}
```
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