Re: [O] Bug: [PATCH] Make org-narrow-to-subtree usable out of Org mode [8.2.7b (release_8.2.7b-6-g07d470 @ /home/youngfrog/sourcetrees/org-mode/lisp/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Nicolas Richard <address@hidden> writes:

> But now that I think about it, org mode simply should avoid narrow-map
> completely : users (me included) won't randomly try to run
> org-narrow-to-subtree outside of org buffers (and those who do deserve a
> bad error message) but they might want to give "C-x n s" a try if it is
> available.
>
> While writing a patch for changing that, I see that the code is:
> (if (boundp 'narrow-map)
>     (org-defkey narrow-map "s" 'org-narrow-to-subtree)
>   (org-defkey org-mode-map "\C-xns" 'org-narrow-to-subtree))
> (if (boundp 'narrow-map)
>     (org-defkey narrow-map "b" 'org-narrow-to-block)
>   (org-defkey org-mode-map "\C-xnb" 'org-narrow-to-block))
> (if (boundp 'narrow-map)
>     (org-defkey narrow-map "e" 'org-narrow-to-element)
>   (org-defkey org-mode-map "\C-xne" 'org-narrow-to-element))
>
> IOW, org.el purposely binds in narrow-map ! So now I don't get it :
> either it's in narrow-map and should be usable widely, or it's in
> org-mode-map only for org-mode files.

I don't know the answer either, but it is strange indeed.

Carsten introduced it in 2008 in commit
6321ab8a852252ff242386eb9fef8ae12112f3a8, but the commit message is
rather terse. I'm CC'ing him for more information, hopefully.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou