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: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:25:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C5381A15-AE5D-440B-9849-EC3E290AA504@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905240139380.24817@fichte.ofai.at>

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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