GNU bug report logs - #11482
24.0.96; Keep `M-s' as a prefix key for search (conflict with Gnus)

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Message #60 received at 11482 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: John Wiegley <jwiegley <at> gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 11482 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11482: 24.0.96;
 Keep `M-s' as a prefix key for search (conflict with Gnus)
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 11:28:00 -0800

>>>>> Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> Feel free to close this bug, if you don't care that Gnus respects the `M-s'
> "convention" and #1 is most important. I filed the bug report based on an
> Icicles user report. I filed it because of my understanding that `M-s' is
> conventionally a search prefix key.

Let's change the topic of this bug then, to be about whether M-s should be a
reserved key to be respected by all modes or not, and therefore require an
update to the Elisp convention. Lars, do you think this would be troublesome
for Gnus?

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