Re: FR: keystroke to cancel prefix sub-keymap

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

I don't have a better solution for now, so I am taking the patch,  
thanks.

- Carsten
On Dec 31, 2007, at 1:10 PM, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Adam Spiers (orgmode@adamspiers.org) wrote:
>> Suppose that I have a sub-keymap for custom agenda commands with
>> prefix 's', i.e. shortcuts 's1', 's2', 's3' and so on.  I might  
>> invoke
>> org-agenda, press 's', then change my mind and want to use another
>> custom command instead.  Currently, the only way of doing this would
>> be to press something like 'q' or C-g, then reinvoke org-agenda.  It
>> would be nice instead if there was a keystroke which simply returned
>> you to the first *Agenda Commands* buffer.  The following patch
>> demonstrates the required behaviour, but as you can see, is not a
>> particularly clean way of doing it.
>>
>> http://www.adamspiers.org/cgi-bin/hg.cgi/org-pacific/rev/8fadf3f7ddda
>
> I forgot to say that the previous patch I posted bound the
> cancellation to SPC; however I think DEL would be a more intuitive
> choice:
>
> http://www.adamspiers.org/cgi-bin/hg.cgi/org-atlantic/rev/69815deb4483
>
> # HG changeset patch
> # User Adam Spiers <orgmode@adamspiers.org>
> # Date 1199102771 0
> # Node ID 69815deb4483e0e782ec0e164d2058a511243e64
> # Parent  518295ce53e0594261d7e1b8d92ab8552c0bd69a
> SPACE to cancel prefix sub-keymap
>
> diff -r 518295ce53e0 -r 69815deb4483 org.el
> --- a/org.el	Sat Dec 29 20:42:27 2007 +0000
> +++ b/org.el	Mon Dec 31 12:06:11 2007 +0000
> @@ -19340,6 +19340,14 @@ L   Timeline for current buffer
> 	    (setq restriction nil))
> 	   ((and (equal selstring "") (memq c '(?a ?t ?m ?L ?C ?e ?T ?M ? 
> # ?! ?/)))
> 	    (throw 'exit (cons (setq selstring (char-to-string c))  
> restriction)))
> +           ((and (> (length selstring) 0) (eq c ?\d))
> +            (delete-window)
> +            (org-agenda-get-restriction-and-command prefix- 
> descriptions))
> +;; Can't do it this way because help text describing hardcoded agenda
> +;; commands is inserted into buffer outside the (while t ...) loop.
> +;;             (setq selstring ""
> +;;                   rmheader 0
> +;;                   custom org-agenda-custom-commands))
> 	   ((equal c ?q) (error "Abort"))
> 	   (t (error "Invalid key %c" c))))))))
>
>
>
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