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outline-mode: New keybindings for demote/promote/move-subtree

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 41129 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41129: outline-mode: New keybindings for demote/promote/move-subtree
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 20:00:50 +0200

> From: Howard Melman <hmelman <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 12:39:52 -0500
> 
> the command right-word, which is only useful when editing
> bidirectional

This assertion is incorrect.  The real goal of right-word is to
provide a command that works as users expect in both left-to-right and
right-to-left contexts.  The alternative would be to request that the
user should decide whether to use M-f or M-b to go in a particular
direction, and that's a non-starter.

> is so important it needs TWO very similar default key bindings
> (M-right and C-right)

This command has two bindings not because of its importance, but
because other programs out there use those bindings.  Emacs is
following the expectations of the users here.

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