Re: [O] Bug: orgtbl-self-insert-command does not overwrite whitespace [8.3.4 (8.3.4-50-g83e373-elpa @ /home/alex/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20160509/)]

[Alex]

Alex G <address@hidden> writes:

>> > Backspace works as expected, however.
>> I'm afraid that as of org-20160516 on ELPA, backspace also does not
>> overwrite whitespace.
>
> Oh, it seems like backspace works fine in text modes like
> fundamental-mode and message-mode, but not prog-derived modes. I'd say
> that's another bug.
>
> A git bisect says that this commit by Bastien Guerry is the culprit:
> f0a64ab3b5c46c8c7b1c838de2ed20511357e43d
>
> Does anyone know why it also affects orgtbl-self-insert-command?

I believe I have figured out the issue for both problems:

a) orgtbl-self-insert-command wasn't updated along with
org-self-insert-command in the commit
73a5c27cc1751721344886e7518f20ff382265b5. Changing it accordingly fixes
the issue.


b) Backspace doesn't work in prog-derived modes as orgtbl-mode seems to
just remap delete-backward-char to orgtbl, but in prog modes backspace
is bound to backward-delete-char-untabify.

Perhaps something extra should be done about backspace in orgtbl-mode
instead of just a simple remapping?