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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: meta commands and Info manual
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2015 23:14:12 +0200
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To: Alan Wehmann <alan.wehmann@gmail.com>
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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:
>
> =E2=80=98M-S-<right>     (org-table-insert-column)=E2=80=99
>      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,

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Nicolas Goaziou