Re: Emacs in a Term and Org

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

On Mar 1, 2010, at 5:29 AM, Richard Riley wrote:

>
> More often than not I run emacsclient in rxvt under Tmux (a Screen
> replacement). As a result (and inconveniently) a lot of common key
> sequences dont work properly - generally involving shift/control/alt  
> and
> arrow and function keys. Most of the time it doesn't matter as there  
> is
> always a work around.
>
> In org-mode the only real headache this gives me are the calendar
> commands for scheduling which involve the arrow keys. e.g S-left/right
> for sliding a date a day or two. Currently I can use "+4d" for example
> instead of 4 x S-right, however not always convenient - Currently I  
> need
> to bring up an X frame pretty much only for org scheduling.
>
> I was wondering if anyone here has devised a consistent key map not  
> including
> these modern fangled "arrow keys" ;)  ?
>
> In the mini buffer we cant use the standard calendar keys (which would
> be nice) since its a freetype field and these calendar UI keys are the
> standard emacs editline commands (C-f C-b etc).
>
> I did wonder about a solution I could try to implement which would  
> be to
> have a setting, default to nil, which would default any date edit  
> input
> to the calendar UI only and you can then enter the actual editline ui
> for entering a time or relative date by hitting something like "@"  
> which
> has no current calendar binding and then you can have the default
> currently defined behaviour.
>
> Possibly I've overlooked other options / solutions but the arrow  
> keys are
> pretty inconvenient in layout for me in addition to not working
> correctly in conjunction with S/C in many Term implementations.
>
> Possibly its just a urxvt/tmux solution I need : but the whole termcap
> /term and emacs issue is a nest of vipers ;)
>
> Ideas and pointers very welcome.
>

In case you did not know this:  When you have figures out the keys you  
want to use for the calendar, you can set them using `org-read-date- 
minibuffer-setup-hook'.
Go read the source code of the function org-read-date (in org.el) to  
see how these commands work, so that you can properly assign them to  
other keys.

- Carsten