From: Alan Wehmann <alan.wehmann@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: meta commands and Info manual
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:45:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0177EA08-AD8C-4E75-AFA3-453919E805D4@gmail.com> (raw)
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I am a new user of Org. I'm an experienced user of Emacs. My first use of Org was to create a table. I soon found myself wanting to insert a column. I looked at Info node "(org) Built-in table editor" [This manual is for Org version 8.2.9.] and it said:
‘M-S-<right> (org-table-insert-column)’
Insert a new column to the left of the cursor position.
I now know that this was somewhat mis-leading, since that key combination is bound to "org-shiftmetaright", but at the time I was rather confused (see topic "Org keymap question" in "news group" gnu.emacs.help). I'd recommend a revision to the Info manual, to describe more prominently command "org-shiftmetaright" and other "meta" commands like it (apologies in advance if there is a later version of the Info manual that addresses this).
Info node "(org) Conventions" does mention the use of the meta commands somewhat, but I certainly didn't see it right away.
I am using:
GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0, NS apple-appkit-1265.21) of 2015-04-10 on builder10-9.porkrind.org
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-07 14:45 Alan Wehmann [this message]
2015-07-20 21:14 ` meta commands and Info manual Nicolas Goaziou
2015-07-20 22:08 ` Nick Dokos
2015-07-21 8:45 ` Suvayu Ali
2015-07-21 21:45 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-07-22 2:26 ` Nick Dokos
2015-07-22 13:03 ` Suvayu Ali
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