Re: outline-minor-mode and org-mode capabilities for programming languages

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Monday, May 10, 2021 at 5:35 AM
> From: "Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor" 
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: outline-minor-mode and org-mode capabilities for programming 
> languages
>
> Jean Louis wrote:
>
> > I don't think it should be updated, it is enough for users
> > to customize their key bindings. The TAB that you are very
> > much used to has its quite different meaning in different
> > mode like emacs-lisp-mode and it would really disturt to
> > change key bindings all the time when I switch to
> > outline-minor-mode and back.
>
> Maybe so (I don't know the modes you refer to) but in general
> is it very common to switch keys based on mode, most often the
> modes are major modes but it can and is done for minor modes
> as well, here is one example

That has been my drift, to do things by language, for elisp we can refrain from
<tab> if need be.

Currently there are a number of convoluted functionalities for outline-mode.  
But
we should remember that all have their origin primarily driven by the 
development
of org-mode.



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> > I can think that you barely use TAB in Emacs Lisp, but I use
> > it very frequently to indent the lines, including to indent
> > lines when region is active, and often I may use it on the
> > whole marked buffer.
>
> You barely use it, but you use it all the time ... and so do
> I :)
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