Re: ESC vs Meta for shifted keys

[Robert Pluim]

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

>> I think it's just a bug: when left-word and right-word were introduced
>> only one pair of bindings was updated and not the other.
>
> I'm not sure it's a bug.  My guess is that it was by design
> (for whatever reason).  Perhaps Eli or someone else can
> enlighten us.
>
> I kinda doubt it was an oversight.  All of those bindings
> are together, and the person who changed the Meta bindings
> likely searched for `forward-word', not "[M-right]" or
> "(kbd "M-<right>")"...
>
> In `bindings.el':
>
>  (global-set-key [M-right]  'right-word)
>  (define-key esc-map [right] 'forward-word)
>  (global-set-key [M-left]   'left-word)
>  (define-key esc-map [left] 'backward-word)

They both used to be bound to {forward,backward}-word, and were
updated at the same time. They're only different in R2L text.

Robert