From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/73447 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: M-; rebound in message-mode Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:31:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <877hhb2vmj.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287693152 964 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2010 20:32:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7253@debbugs.gnu.org, ding@gnus.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M21816@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Oct 21 22:32:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P91oM-0004BN-B8 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:32:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P91o7-0006pw-3G; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:32:15 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1P91o5-0006pk-Qn for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1P91o4-00082h-7c for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:32:13 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1P91o3-0004U1-00 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:32:11 +0200 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id o9LKW0nI028632; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:32:00 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EFE30B461D; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 16:31:59 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <877hhb2vmj.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> (jidanni@jidanni.org's message of "Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:28:36 +0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3655=0 X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:73447 Archived-At: SM> No, M-; should usually not be rebound in major-mods. >>> Yuck. E.g., as I write this it is bound to comment-region. SM> Sounds like a misfeature of the major mode you're using. Can you give SM> us some details? > major-mode ^U^X^E message-mode > M-; (translated from ;) runs the command comment-region, > which is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function in `newcomment.el'. Thanks. It might make sense for message-mode to redefine the binding somewhat since it's not really a programming mode, but this binding means that M-; can't be used to un-quote, so it's not a good idea as it stands. Stefan