From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: org-mode, please change the name of function org-metaleft etc Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:47:51 -0400 Message-ID: References: <47279F39.2010401@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193817276 5636 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2007 07:54:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 07:54:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dominik@science.uva.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 31 08:54:38 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1In8PO-0005mp-7R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:54:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1In8PE-0004XW-RT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:54:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Is-0001Td-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Ir-0001T0-Hu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1In8Ir-0001Sv-7w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:47:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1In8Ir-0002xb-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:47:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1In8Ip-0001p4-Uj; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 03:47:51 -0400 In-reply-to: <47279F39.2010401@gmail.com> (lennart.borgman@gmail.com) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:82204 In org-mode the functions that are bound to some keys are named after the key binding, for example: org-metaleft M-left is a basic cursor motion key which runs backward-word. It is not good for any major mode to rebind such keys, unless the new binding is a sort of extension or adaptation of the standard binding. It is hard to see how backward-word could require any adaptation to a given major mode. What's up here?