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templater: don't overwrite the keyword mapping in runsymbol() (issue4362)

This keyword remapping was introduced in e06e9fd2d99f as part of converting
generator based iterators into list based iterators, mentioning "undesired
behavior in template" when a generator is exhausted, but doesn't say what and
introduces no tests.

The problem with the remapping was that it corrupted the output for keywords
like 'extras', 'file_copies' and 'file_copies_switch' in templates such as:

    $ hg log -r 142b5d5ec9cc --template "{file_copies % ' File: {file_copy}\n'}"
    File: mercurial/changelog.py (mercurial/hg.py)
    File: mercurial/changelog.py (mercurial/hg.py)
    File: mercurial/changelog.py (mercurial/hg.py)
    File: mercurial/changelog.py (mercurial/hg.py)
    File: mercurial/changelog.py (mercurial/hg.py)
    File: mercurial/changelog.py (mercurial/hg.py)
    File: mercurial/changelog.py (mercurial/hg.py)
    File: mercurial/changelog.py (mercurial/hg.py)

What was happening was that in the first call to runtemplate() inside runmap(),
'lm' mapped the keyword (e.g. file_copies) to the appropriate showxxx() method.
On each subsequent call to runtemplate() in that loop however, the keyword was
mapped to a list of the first item's pieces, e.g.:

   'file_copy': ['mercurial/changelog.py', ' (', 'mercurial/hg.py', ')']

Therefore, the dict for the second and any subsequent items were not processed
through the corresponding showxxx() method, and the first item's data was
reused.

The 'extras' keyword regressed in de7e6c489412, and 'file_copies' regressed in
0b241d7a8c62 for other reasons.  The common thread of things fixed by this seems
to be when a list of dicts are passed to the templatekw._hybrid class.

Mercurial's internal web server, hgweb, can serve either a single
repository, or a tree of repositories. In the second case, repository
paths and global options can be defined using a dedicated
configuration file common to :hg:`serve`, ``hgweb.wsgi``,
``hgweb.cgi`` and ``hgweb.fcgi``.

This file uses the same syntax as other Mercurial configuration files
but recognizes only the following sections:

  - web
  - paths
  - collections

The ``web`` options are thoroughly described in :hg:`help config`.

The ``paths`` section maps URL paths to paths of repositories in the
filesystem. hgweb will not expose the filesystem directly - only
Mercurial repositories can be published and only according to the
configuration.

The left hand side is the path in the URL. Note that hgweb reserves
subpaths like ``rev`` or ``file``, try using different names for
nested repositories to avoid confusing effects.

The right hand side is the path in the filesystem. If the specified
path ends with ``*`` or ``**`` the filesystem will be searched
recursively for repositories below that point.
With ``*`` it will not recurse into the repositories it finds (except for
``.hg/patches``).
With ``**`` it will also search inside repository working directories
and possibly find subrepositories.

In this example::

  [paths]
  /projects/a = /srv/tmprepos/a
  /projects/b = c:/repos/b
  / = /srv/repos/*
  /user/bob = /home/bob/repos/**

- The first two entries make two repositories in different directories
  appear under the same directory in the web interface
- The third entry will publish every Mercurial repository found in
  ``/srv/repos/``, for instance the repository ``/srv/repos/quux/``
  will appear as ``http://server/quux/``
- The fourth entry will publish both ``http://server/user/bob/quux/``
  and ``http://server/user/bob/quux/testsubrepo/``

The ``collections`` section is deprecated and has been superseded by
``paths``.