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

From: Paolo Petta <paolo.petta@ofai.at>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minor request: full support of "ESC" as Meta key
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 19:50:24 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0905261944540.28962@fichte.ofai.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C5381A15-AE5D-440B-9849-EC3E290AA504@gmail.com>

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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Paolo Petta                                         +43-1-5336112-12(Tel)
Austrian Research Inst. for Artificial Intelligence +43-1-5336112-77(Fax)
Freyung 6/6, A 1010 Vienna, Austria, Europe       Paolo.Petta <@> ofai.at