bug#60815: 28.2; Hard-coded M-sff key binding in dired-aux.el

[Evgeni Pandurski]

Now I see that i have messed up this mail-thread, by not CC-ing to all
participants (easy to do from Gmail's web interface).

The point is that I found a way to re-bind M-s, which works well
enough for me (by monkey-patching some functions from dired-aux.el.
And I believe that, currently, re-binding M-s is unnecessarily hard,
which I consider as either a bug or a serious architectural problem in
Emacs.

On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 7:34 PM Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> wrote:
>
> >> Oh, my bad! Actually, it is: (define-key isearch-mode-map (kbd "M-s")
> >> 'other-window)
> >
> > And that is the problem: you should bind it in the global map, not in
> > isearch-mode-map.  The Isearch mode map has several key sequences
> > hard-coded that begin with the M-s key, so binding M-s in the Isearch
> > keymap is not recommended.
>
> Then I guess this report can be closed, done.