Re: 'M-o' ('facemap-keymap') has now been removed until March 10th 2021

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:46:38 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> Fair enough, but please include in NEWS a recipe to get back the old
> >> behavior.  Is the following enough?
> >> 
> >>   (require 'facemenu)
> >>   (define-key global-map "\M-o" 'facemenu-keymap)
> 
> Yup; I've now added this to NEWS.

Thanks.

> > Actually, it looks like the following is needed to get back the old
> > bindings:
> >
> >   (require 'facemenu)
> >   (define-key global-map "\M-o" 'facemenu-keymap)
> >   (define-key facemenu-keymap "\es" 'center-line)
> >   (define-key facemenu-keymap "\eS" 'center-paragraph)
> 
> These two functions aren't really related to the facemenu functionality,
> so I think that just confuses the issue.  If somebody wants to have a
> binding for these two commands, that's presumably orthogonal to whether
> they want to have the facemenu-keymap functionality.  So these people
> should just put them on `C-c LETTER' or wherever they put things.

We are talking about getting back the old behavior, so we should let
users have _all_ of it back.  We could, of course, clarify that the
last two bindings are unrelated to faces, and that they are needed
only if the user wants them back.

(FWIW, I'm a long-time and happy user of center-line, and was quite
annoyed when it moved from its original M-s to a longer "M-o M-s", but
that's water under the bridge.)