bug#60815: 28.2; Hard-coded M-sff key binding in dired-aux.el

[Evgeni Pandurski]

Great! Thanks.

I am not qualified to review your patch, but it seems that it does
exactly what I proposed. I hope what I proposed is not a terribly dumb
idea :)

Also, I am not sure that these are the only modes that "ruthlessly"
override the M-s global binding.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 9:28 PM Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
>
> > The problem that remains is that I should do the equivalent of:
> >
> > (define-key isearch-mode-map [f6] isearch-mode-search-map)
> > (define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "M-s") other-window)
> >
> > for several other minor (and probably some minor modes). To name a
> > few: minibuffer-local-map, Buffer-menu-mode-map, and dired-mode-map
> > all shadow my M-s redefinition, and I can not go to other window in
> > these modes. It would be very nice if those major modes are more
> > clever, clever when overriding global bindings.
>
> This is possible too where you can additionally use
>
>   (setq search-prefix [f6])
>
> If this works, then minibuffer-local-map could be made customizable
> later as well:
>