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Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:16:43 +0200 |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> It looks deliberate to me (and sensible).
>> Only the global bindings were changed:
>>
>> -(global-set-key [M-right] 'forward-word)
>> +(global-set-key [M-right] 'right-word)
>> (define-key esc-map [right] 'forward-word)
>> -(global-set-key [M-left] 'backward-word)
>> +(global-set-key [M-left] 'left-word)
>> (define-key esc-map [left] 'backward-word)
>
> Right, and that's I expected too.
>
> And Eli basically confirms that it was deliberate,
> but doesn't recall just why it was done. (Depending
> on what "mistake" might mean, he perhaps also allowed
> for it to have just been an oversight.)
>
> The bottom line is that it's not clear why it
> was done, and it's not clear what the right
> behavior/choice would be now.
Itʼs pretty clear to me: the current situation allows users of R2L
text to choose visual or logical moving without impacting L2R users at
all, so I see no need to change anything.
> These are only default bindings, so whatever
> choice is made it's not the end of the world.
This is emacs, after all :-)
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, (continued)
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Robert Pluim, 2018/04/10
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Bob Proulx, 2018/04/10
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/11
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Bob Proulx, 2018/04/11
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Stefan Monnier, 2018/04/11
- RE: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Drew Adams, 2018/04/11
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Robert Pluim, 2018/04/12
- RE: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Drew Adams, 2018/04/12
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Robert Pluim, 2018/04/12
- RE: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Drew Adams, 2018/04/12
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys,
Robert Pluim <=
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Yuri Khan, 2018/04/12
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/12
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/12
- Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/04/12
Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys, Emanuel Berg, 2018/04/10