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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Alan Wehmann <alan.wehmann@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: meta commands and Info manual
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:14:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egk21qhn.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0177EA08-AD8C-4E75-AFA3-453919E805D4@gmail.com> (Alan Wehmann's message of "Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:45:54 -0500")

Hello,

Alan Wehmann <alan.wehmann@gmail.com> writes:

> 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).

I think meta commands are the ones confusing here. I mean, is

  M-S-<right>  (org-shiftmetaright)

informative?

Anyway, I'm not sure to understand what puzzled you in the first place.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-07-20 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-07 14:45 meta commands and Info manual Alan Wehmann
2015-07-20 21:14 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
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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