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Why are all meta keys unbound in org-mode?

I restarted Emacs recently and now all my keybindings that start with Meta, such as M-x and M-q, are unbound in org-mode. It is really weird because I tried to specifically define it in org-mode with

(org-defkey org-mode-map [(meta x)] 'execute-extended-command)

but I get the error:

Key sequence M-x starts with non-prefix key ESC

So that doesn't work to temporarily fix it, but the bigger problem is that I have no sense of where to start searching for why these things are unbound in org-mode.

I know it must be me, because emacs -Q and emacs -q don't have the problem.

Any clues or advice?

Solution

  • I bound C-[ to something and that took over M-x, because M-x is really ESC x and ESC x is really C-[ x.

    (org-defkey org-mode-map (kbd "C-[") 'org-metaleft)