Re: key binding ESC C-s in summary buffer

[Colin Rafferty <craffert@ml.com>]

John H Palmieri writes:

> I know it has been this way for some time, but I am not altogether
> happy with having ESC C-s bound to something other than
> isearch-forward-regexp, in any situation, and in particular in summary
> mode in Gnus.

> I suppose I could rebind the key in the appropriate keymap, but it
> seems that in the Emacs key binding philosophy (according to which I
> try to lead my entire life), I shouldn't have to rebind a key to its
> default global binding.

For my pet peeve keybinding, I use the following:

    (define-key gnus-summary-mode-map [(control meta l)] nil)

The `nil' argument to `define-key' "means key is undefined in this
keymap", which is really what you want.

> Is this an issue for anyone else, or do you manage to get by from day
> to day without being able to search summary buffers, conveniently, for
> regular expressions?

I definitely agree that gnus-summary-mode shouldn't override standard
non-editing keybindings.

-- 
Colin