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Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc
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Bastien |
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Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:25:07 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> In org-mode the functions that are bound to some keys are named
> after the key binding, for example:
>
> <M-left> org-metaleft
>
> M-left is a basic cursor motion key which runs backward-word.
> It is not good for any major mode to rebind such keys,
> unless the new binding is a sort of extension or adaptation
> of the standard binding. It is hard to see how backward-word
> could require any adaptation to a given major mode.
>
> What's up here?
Just a few remarks:
1. `org-metaleft' falls back on `backward-word' in the vaste majority of
cases. It calls the two other commands only when the point is at a
table or a subtree -- so no surprise for the user.
2. the historical key for `backward-word' (M-b) remains unchanged.
3. this rebinding doesn't seem conceptually different to the one
affecting the C-a key in message-mode: `message-beginning-of-line'
redefines `beginning-of-line' so that the command is aware of the
implicit field the line may contain.
4. the way Org handles all the commands associated with the arrow keys
is very coherent; changing one binding among arrow keys commands may
affect the whole equilibrum.
--
Bastien
- org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/10/30
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/31
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/10/31
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Andreas Schwab, 2007/10/31
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Bastien, 2007/10/31
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Jason Rumney, 2007/10/31
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Bastien, 2007/10/31
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2007/10/31
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/31
- Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc, Jason Rumney, 2007/10/31
Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc,
Bastien <=