[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#340125: [fwd: Bug#340125: octave-mode rebinds M-BS]

[Rafael Laboissiere]

I am forwarding below a bug report filed against the octave2.9-emacsen
package.  The submitter claims that the meta-backspace should not be
bound by octave-mode.  

I would like to hear from you whether backward-kill-word is really the
standard keybinding for meta-backspace and whether it should be changed
or not.

Thanks,

Rafael

----- Forwarded message from Frederik Eaton <frederik at ofb.net> -----

From: Frederik Eaton <frederik at ofb.net>
Subject: [Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#340125: octave-mode rebinds M-BS
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 04:02:20 +0000
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Reply-To: frederik at ofb.net, 340125 at bugs.debian.org

Package: octave2.9-emacsen
Version: 2.9.2-2
Severity: normal

Octave-mode (in xemacs 21.4) seems to be rebinding the meta-backspace
keystroke:

M-BS runs `octave-mark-defun' 

This is unwise because it's a standard keystroke (backward-kill-word)
which many people frequently use as part of normal editing. Changing
the definition to something else is confusing and annoying to these
users.

Frederik

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages octave2.9-emacsen depends on:
ii  debianutils                   2.14.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  emacs21 [emacsen]             21.4a-1    The GNU Emacs editor
ii  octave2.9                     2.9.2-2    GNU Octave language for numerical 
ii  xemacs21                      21.4.17-2  highly customizable text editor
ii  xemacs21-mule [xemacs21]      21.4.17-2  highly customizable text editor --

octave2.9-emacsen recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information


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