From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 14:31:36 +0300 Message-ID: <834lkg3bl3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d0z71985.fsf@gmail.com> <20180410164730086770438@bob.proulx.com> <20180411131107072594795@bob.proulx.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1523532635 6462 195.159.176.226 (12 Apr 2018 11:30:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:30:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 12 13:30:31 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f6aQw-0001Zh-IQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:30:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6aT3-0002VM-13 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:32:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56234) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6aRr-0002SY-RQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:31:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6aRo-0004tz-J5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:31:27 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34515) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f6aRo-0004tv-FO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:31:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3558 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1f6aRn-0006Dk-3R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2018 07:31:23 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:58:23 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:116485 Archived-At: > Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:58:23 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > > I think it's just a bug: when left-word and right-word were introduced > > only one pair of bindings was updated and not the other. > > I'm not sure it's a bug. My guess is that it was by design > (for whatever reason). Perhaps Eli or someone else can > enlighten us. > > I kinda doubt it was an oversight. All of those bindings > are together, and the person who changed the Meta bindings > likely searched for `forward-word', not "[M-right]" or > "(kbd "M-")"... I don't remember why I bypassed ESC etc. Maybe I wanted to change as few bindings as possible. Maybe I thought users of R2L script are unlikely to invoke these commands via ESC. Maybe I just made a mistake. If someone is annoyed by the difference (which should only be visible in bidirectional text), feel free to make ESC do the same as Meta in this case.