bug#56714: 28.1.90; html-mode-map binds M-o

[Daniel Mendler]

On 7/23/22 07:52, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Daniel Mendler <mail@daniel-mendler.de> writes:
> 
>> In Emacs 28 the global M-o binding for the face menu was removed. The
>> html-mode-map still binds the key, such that it is not free to use by
>> the user. Is it possible to (re)move this binding? html-mode uses the
>> face menu functionality. If a full removal is not possible, the face
>> menu could be moved to another key.
> 
> facemenu-keymap is useful in html-mode, so it was kept.  Removing it
> there, too, would be too annoying, so we decided not to do that.
> 
> So this is working as designed, and I'm therefore closing this bug
> report.

Why not use another key binding instead, such that M-o is truly free to
use by the user? In Emacs 28 the global binding was freed for that
reason. I think it would be better to free that binding consistently
across all modes.