Re: Minor request: full support of "ESC" as Meta key

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Paolo Petta <paolo.petta@ofai.at>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minor request: full support of "ESC" as Meta key
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 21:18:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5002669B-85ED-4E82-B792-7ECE06BEFBDB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905261944540.28962@fichte.ofai.at>

Hi Paolo,

I have applied your patch, only moving some of the bindings into the  
org-use-extra-keys form.

Thanks!

- Carsten

On May 26, 2009, at 7:50 PM, Paolo Petta wrote:

> Dear Carsten -
>
> many thanks for following up on this (and to the list for bearing  
> with me!) --- more in a direct/private email.
>
> Paolo
>
> On Tue, 26 May 2009, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:25:01 +0200
>> From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
>> To: Paolo Petta <paolo.petta@ofai.at>
>> Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Minor request: full support of "ESC" as Meta  
>> key
>> Hi Paolo,
>>
>> normally, meta key bindings should automatically also affect ESC  
>> bindings. So it should not be necessary, even though I see that I  
>> have done this in some cases, very like upon requests like your's.
>>
>> If you try to come up with a list of affected bindings/commands, I  
>> will add these specific bindings.  However, as you have noticed,  
>> some keys in orgstruct-mode may be difficult.
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>> On May 24, 2009, at 2:15 AM, Paolo Petta wrote:
>>
>>> [Dear moderator:
>>> this is of course a minor remark, and it is clearly not up to me to
>>> decide whether it is worth while being recorded at all, let alone
>>> being spread to the mailing list!
>>> But I still do hope it is not considered a downright abuse of your  
>>> time!]
>>> I only just started to look into Org: As "OS-hopper" using emacs  
>>> regularly on different versions of Linux, Windows, and Mac OS, the  
>>> comprehensive cross-platform support that Org promises is highly  
>>> appealing.
>>> But trying to use Org relying on the Escape key as 'Meta', I  
>>> discovered that Org's support in this regard is currently spotty.  
>>> While for some key combinations both the [?\e (...)] and the  
>>> [(meta ...)] variants are defined, it is only the [(meta ...)]  
>>> definitions that are fully covered. For example, org-insert-todo- 
>>> heading - one of the very first org-specific key-combinations  
>>> introduced in the very useful Org tutorial - is mapped only to  
>>> [(meta shift return)], the "ESC-based" equivalent [?\e (shift  
>>> return)] is missing (org.el, line 13905).
>>> While I've tried to patch up org.el the best I could with the  
>>> missing keymap definitions (and so far I have not run into  
>>> problems), I am not proficient enough an elisp programmer to dare  
>>> provide my fixes: e.g. I'm not at all sure to have made the  
>>> correct additions to the section introduced with the comment
>>> ";; Special treatment needed for TAB and RET" on line 6836 of  
>>> org.el;
>>> the specification of disputed keys on line 331ff in org.el would  
>>> be another example.
>>> I would therefore like to ask to please consider putting 'full'  
>>> coverage for both keymap variants on the todo list for an upcoming  
>>> release.
>>> With many thanks in advance!
>>> Paolo
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