drag-left and drag-right clobber Emacs / Readline word-left/right defaults.

[jasonm23]

The up/down functionality is very useful, but M-left / M-right are Readline / Emacs default binding, so the drag-left and drag-right on those bindings is extremely unwelcome.

I suggest they are re-bound to keep them out of default bindings.

Users can easily override Emacs defaults themselves if they want to use them in this way.

[rejeep]

I guess we could use a function that the user called to bind the default keys.

[jasonm23]

how about (global-drag-stuff-vertical) and (global-drag-stuff-horizontal) or something like that?

[rejeep]

I think the functions should be better named to reflect what they do. For example: (drag-stuff-enable-default-keybindings) or similar.

Would you be willing to fix this and make a pull request?

[jasonm23]

Sure, as long as the api names are signed off by you. I will try to get it done in the next couple of days.

[rejeep]

Great. Just pick some names, I'll sure it'll be just fine. :)

[Froziph]

Did this ever become a thing :P?

[jasonm23]

I'll need to do it still. I have a move up down extension which I put together years ago so I personally use that one still.

My initial motivation was to help other people adopt yours.

I'm not seeing anyone else complain about these keys, so it's a theoretical problem, as opposed to a pressing issue.

I wonder how many people are using this?

(Note OS X maps the meta-left / right to move cursor left / right word too, so imagine wider adoption for those users will pop this issue again.)

[emilv]

I do have this problem (on OSX as you guessed). Moving left only moves the word, not the cursor. All I really want is moving up and down. I guess I can try to avoid left/right entirely but it would be nice to disable the functionality.

[rejeep]

I'm closing this and if this is a big enough issue, please open a pull request with the solution decided on above.